The phrase "act of preparation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the process or effort involved in getting ready for a specific task or event.
Example: "The act of preparation is crucial for ensuring a successful presentation."
Alternatives: "process of getting ready" or "preparatory action".
"My first act of preparation was the purchase [of] my first handgun," he wrote about his long-planned rampage.
Less about the actual food and more about the act of preparation, the whole meal like one big flirt.
For Catholics, offering shelter to a refugee family would be seen as a "concrete act of preparation" for the Jubilee Year of Mercy beginning in December, he added.
Page after page builds toward their fateful plan, only for it to fizzle out and be parlayed into an opportunity for erotic arousal: "Their fear and bravery had only been a prelude, an act of preparation, for the sex".
Until Skype and other popular video calling services get their acts together, buying this device is an act of preparation.
The most important category of inchoate offenses is attempt, which consists of any conduct intended to accomplish a criminal result that fails of consummation but goes beyond acts of preparation to a point dangerously close to completion of the intended harm.
These little acts of preparation will amount to a much bigger payoff when you are able to have flawless conversation with the people who will have the greatest benefit to you!
After years of cooking for her husband and children, loss of this caregiving role made the act of food preparation seem futile: It (cooking) just seems pointless…Now that I don't have to cook, I don't do much.
The act of mental preparation didn't ever exist for me.
Although the act of food preparation was demoted to an afterthought by the advent of such 20th-century concepts as takeout and microwave ovens, the ritual of presentation remains deeply ingrained.
The remaining belongings he had packed and left with the upstairs neighbor, a middle-aged bachelor whose only act of storm preparation was to muzzle his dog.
