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Prep

/pɹɛp/

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

📖 Definitions of "Prep"

noun

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

noun

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

noun

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.

2 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
preparationnoun	(uncountable) The act of preparing or getting ready.
homeworknoun	Exercises assigned by a teacher to a student which review concepts studied in class.

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
preparationnoun	(uncountable) The act of preparing or getting ready.
homeworknoun	Exercises assigned by a teacher to a student which review concepts studied in class.
preparingnoun	preparation
preprocessingnoun	The act of processing beforehand.
preparatory	Of or pertaining to preparation, having the purpose of making something or someone ready, preparative.
readynoun	(slang) Ready money; cash.
preparenoun	(transitive) To make ready for a specific future purpose; to set up; to assemble or equip; to forearm.
preparednessnoun	The state of being prepared.
readinessnoun	The state or degree of being ready; preparedness.
prepared	(followed by the preposition to) Disposed, willing, ready (to do something).
secnoun	(informal) Second, ¹⁄₆₀ of a minute.
pernoun	(stock market) Initialism of price-earnings ratio. [(finance) The ratio of share price to earnings per share used as an indication of the relative value of the share.]
getnoun	(dated) Offspring, especially illegitimate.
drynoun	The process by which something is dried.
paveverb	(Canada, US) To cover with stone, concrete, blacktop or other solid covering, especially to aid travel.
persnoun	A male given name from Swedish.
preparationsnoun	(uncountable) The act of preparing or getting ready.
preparesverb	(transitive) To make ready for a specific future purpose; to set up; to assemble or equip; to forearm.
primenoun	First in importance, degree, or rank.
arrangeverb	(transitive) To set up; to organize; to put into an orderly sequence or arrangement.