Слово "preparation". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

Daylight superintended the preparations, adjusting the curb strap and the stirrup length, and doing the cinching.

But the flower was not satisfied to complete the preparations for her beauty in the shelter of her green chamber.

Madame Forestier, standing by, watched him make these preparations, then took a cigarette from the mantel-shelf, and lit it.

It was nearly eleven hundred, and in the Records Department, where Winston worked, they were dragging the chairs out of the cubicles and grouping them in the centre of the hall opposite the big telescreen, in preparation for the Two Minutes Hate.

You are well aware that chemical preparations exist, and have existed time out of mind, by means of which it is possible to write upon either paper or vellum, so that the characters shall become visible only when subjected to the action of fire.