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Meaning of prep

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

prep

Pronunciation:/pɹɛp/

noun

Definitions

  1. A preventative medical regiment of HIV medicines used to protect against HIV seroconversion after an exposure.

    Example: Some doctors will prescribe pre-exposure prophylaxis to promiscuous people that have a hard time controlling themselves or their condom usage to prevent them from getting AIDS.

    Synonyms:PrEP

noun

Definitions

  1. Preparation.

  2. A prep school.

  3. A student or graduate of a prep school, a preppy.

  4. Homework, work set to do outside class time, used widely in public schools and preparatory schools but not state schools.

verb

Definitions

  1. To prepare.

noun

Definitions

  1. (grammar, strict sense) Any of a class of non-inflecting words typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.

  2. A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.