preparative

Serving or tending to prepare or make ready; preliminary.

Something that prepares for or acts as a preliminary to something following.

Serving or tending to prepare or make ready; preparatory.

a business meeting, or meeting for discipline, held before the monthly meeting, to which it is subordinate;

the organization which holds the meeting. Each monthly meeting has usually two or more preparative meetings connected with it.

That which is preparatory; something that prepares or paves the way; a preparatory measure or act.

That which has the power of preparing, or previously fitting for a purpose; that which prepares.

That which is done in the way of preparation.

Tending to prepare or make ready; having the power of preparing, qualifying, or fitting; preparatory.

That serves to prepare something