Arrangements, Getting Ready
Noun and する verb
したく
学校へ行く支度ができたらよんでください。
Please call me when you've gotten ready for school.
母は台所で夕はんの支度を、父は部屋でりょ行の支度をしています。
Mom is preparing dinner in the kitchen and dad is making arrangements for a trip in his room.
いつまで寝てるの！早く起きて支度しなさい！！
How long are you sleeping? Get up now and get ready!
This one's a little weird. When you want to support someone in degrees you need lots of preparation. It takes time and planning to support someone over a period of time like that.
This is a jukugo word that uses the on'yomi readings of the kanji. You haven't learned this reading for 度 yet, so here's a mnemonic to help you remember them together:
In preparation for getting sheared, a sheep will sit on a tack (したく). This sheep tacking makes it so that the shearing part is nothing! Imagine watching some sheep getting ready by sitting on tacks. Yikes. You want to tell them being sheared doesn't hurt and that sheep tacking is worse, but something makes you think they won't listen to you.