The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word PREP
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result PREP
- Quiet salesman’s homework
- Homework pages — school subject to be absorbed
- Part of speech, in short, to get ready for theatre
- Go to check king’s ready
- Right to split ginger, chopping food?
- Homework before start of playtime
- Ready pope regarding containment
- Exuberance after securing right kind of school
- Do one’s homework before commencement of project
- Shopping center hosts concerning kind of school
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The straight part
We know that "Homework" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case homework = prep.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does PREP mean?
PREP noun- A preventative medical regiment of HIV medicines used to protect against HIV seroconversion after an exposure.
- Preparation.
- A prep school.
- A student or graduate of a prep school, a preppy.
- Homework, work set to do outside class time, used widely in public schools and preparatory schools but not state schools.
- Preparatory level; the last two levels or the fourth and fifth years of preschool; the two levels before first grade.
- To prepare.
- (grammar, strict sense) Any of a class of non-inflecting words typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.
- A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.