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word ready
definition
adjective
If someone is ready, they are properly prepared for something. If something is ready, it has been properly prepared and is now able to be used.
It took her a long time to get ready for church.
The parts are packed and ready for shipping.
Are you ready to board, Mr Daly?
In a few days time the sprouts will be ready to eat.
Tomorrow he would tell his pilot to get the aircraft ready.
It's eight-fifteen, dear, and your breakfast's ready.
If you are ready for something or ready to do something, you have enough experience to do it or you are old enough and sensible enough to do it.
She says she's not ready for motherhood.
You'll have no trouble getting him into a nursery when you feel he's ready to go.
If you are ready to do something, you are willing to do it.
They were ready to die for their beliefs.
She was always ready to give interviews.
If you are ready for something, you need it or want it.
I don't know about you, but I'm ready for bed.
After five days in the heat of Bangkok, we were ready for the beach.
To be ready to do something means to be about to do it or likely to do it.
She looked ready to cry.
Just as we were ready to sit down to dinner, a little boy came running in.
He says it's like a volcano ready to erupt.
You use ready to describe things that are able to be used very quickly and easily .
I didn't have a ready answer for this dilemma.
'But not quite yet,' he says quickly, with that ready smile of his.
...a ready supply of well-trained and well-motivated workers.
Ready money is in the form of notes and coins rather than cheques or credit cards, and so it can be used immediately .
I'm afraid I don't have enough ready cash.
She was a bit short of the readies.
verb
When you ready something, you prepare it for a particular purpose .
John's soldiers were readying themselves for the final assault.
Cameramen readied tripods.
other
combining form
Ready combines with past participles to indicate that something has already been done, and that therefore you do not have to do it yourself.
You can buy ready-printed forms for wills at stationery shops.
If you buy the fish ready filleted, make sure the flesh is firm and springy.
inflections readierreadiestreadiesreadyingreadied
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