making+ready

  • 101provision — Synonyms and related words: TLC, abundance, accommodation, accordance, accumulation, amassment, anticipation, arrangement, award, awarding, backlog, basic training, bestowal, bestowment, board, boundary condition, bread, bread and butter,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 102spadework — Synonyms and related words: arrangement, basic training, briefing, clearing the decks, dirty work, donkeywork, drudgery, employment, equipment, fag, familiarization, fatigue, fixing, foundation, grind, groundwork, handiwork, handwork, industry,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 103training — Synonyms and related words: acclimation, acclimatization, accommodation, accustoming, adaption, adjustment, apprenticeship, arrangement, basic training, breaking, breaking in, breeding, briefing, case hardening, clearing the decks, conditioning,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 104treatment — Synonyms and related words: airing, analysis, arrangement, article, atmosphere, balance, basic training, briefing, brushwork, buzz session, canvassing, care, causerie, clearing the decks, colloquium, color, composition, conference, consideration …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 105trial — Synonyms and related words: Olympic games, Olympics, R and D, acid test, adverse circumstances, adversity, affliction, aggravation, agony, anguish, annoyance, approach, arrangement, assay, assize, attempt, audition, bad luck, bad news, bane,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 106tryout — Synonyms and related words: Gedankenexperiment, arrangement, attention, audience, audition, basic training, bench test, benefit, bill, briefing, bugging, clearing the decks, conference, debut, dry run, ear, eavesdropping, electronic surveillance …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 107STEWART, DUGALD —    Scottish philosopher, born in Edinburgh, son of Matthew Stewart; attended the High School and the University; studied one session at Glasgow under Dr. Reid; assisted his father in conducting the mathematical classes in Edinburgh, and succeeded …

    The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • 108gearwung — gearwung1 f ( e/ a) preparation, making ready; working; parasceve …

    Old to modern English dictionary

  • 109preparative — pre·par·a·tive || prɪ pærÉ™tɪv adj. readying, serving to prepare; serving to put into the proper condition; of preparation, pertaining to the act of making ready …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 110preparation — n. 1. Act of preparing, making ready, arrangement, plan. 2. State of being prepared, preparedness, adaptedness, case, condition, readiness. 3. Combination, confection. 4. Qualification fitting …

    New dictionary of synonyms