preparatory to sth

preparatory to sth formalbefore something else and in order to prepare for it作为某事的准备; 在某事之前:•The partners held several meetings preparatory to signing the agreement.合伙人在签订协议之前举行了几次预备性会议。

• on the map
• liveable
• marginally
• go out (of sth)
• pep up
• helical potentionmeter
• mouthful
• piano player
• Io moth
• ridger
• con.s
• fixtures
• intrepidnesses
• Wimpy
• blue stellar object
• towners
• be/feel like jelly
• chile con carne
• Plutarchan
• dermatitis
• metamorphoser
• peptidases
• old guards
• unhurriedness
• Italianizer
• shamefast
• world of difference
• emphractic
• Korea Bay
• pelletted
• dickey
• have a soul above
• paper cutter
• wheel-mounted
• pool cathode
• enlistment
• wheat
• inheritability
• polyacrylamides
• antineoplastic
• chinquapins
• commensurable motions
• skinheads
• overawing
• discombobulated
• optical harmonic
• ninety-nine times out of a hundred
• cytoecology
• an outside chance
• drilling mud
• hobby computer
• discontinuous spectrum
• cactus geranium
• bunker
• gear case
• gaberlunzie
• mistaking
• emeutes
• antagonists
• subofficer
• cryogenic liquid
• end section
• profuse
• the West Coast
• yokelry
• beetle-crusher
• airwards
• seroconversions
• be nothing to sb
• elephant-ear (sponge)
• jacklighted
• paed-
• Wade
• glucosans
• butorphanol
• clerkly
• arthritically
• two minutes' silence
• hexastyles
• rock bolting
• banshee
• muezzins
• skialith
• by-blows
• anaglyptics
• second base
• scallawags
• capillary conductivity
• John Hancocks
• stock record
• convectron
• Sovietisms
• numeraires
• ribavirin
• rate of surplus value
• play a safe card
• mirage
• human-resources department
• philomel
• generation data group