readyadjective
uk/ˈred.i/us/ˈred.i/ready adjective (PREPARED)
A1 prepared and suitable for fast activity:
[ + to infinitive ] Are you ready to leave?
Are you ready to order, Madam?
Okay, Evie, ready when you are (= I am ready to do what we have arranged).
Dinner's ready!
Are you ready? Hurry up - we're late.
We're leaving at eight o'clock, so you've got half an hour to get ready.
The army are said to be ready for action.
The concert hall was made/got ready (= prepared) for the performance.
ready and waiting
waiting and prepared to act:
Secret information allowed the police to be ready and waiting when the robbers came out of the bank.
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- If you're near the garage, could you check to see if the car's ready?
- Well, he wants the report ready by tomorrow but I can always fob him off with some excuse.
- She had to get the kids ready for school.
- The way things are, I'll never have this ready by June.
- The emergency services are ready to spring into action at a moment's notice.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Available and accessible
- accessible
- at your command idiom
- availability
- available
- be there for sb idiom
- beg
- bookable
- come
- come out
- hand
- nothing
- on hand idiom
- on stream idiom
- on/about your person idiom
- open (sth) up
- person
- ready to hand idiom
- ready-made
- release
- vacant possession
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Ready and willing
Waiting
ready adjective (QUICK)
[ before noun ] mainly approving quick with answers, jokes, solutions, etc.:
He had a ready reply to every question.
He was charming, with a ready wit (= the ability to quickly say clever and funny things).
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Intelligence
- acuity
- acumen
- agile
- apt
- artful
- as (if) to the manner born idiom
- brilliance
- gumption
- highbrow
- horse sense
- imaginative
- ingenious
- presence of mind
- profound
- quick-witted
- razor-sharp
- resource
- resourceful
- resourcefulness
- scholarly
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Idiom(s)
be ready to do sth
be ready to roll
ready to hand
ready, steady, go!
readynoun
uk/ˈred.i/us/ˈred.i/at the ready
prepared to be used or to act immediately:
He stood by the phone, pencil at the ready.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Ready and willing
- agreeable
- amenable
- at sb's beck and call idiom
- at your command idiom
- be good to go idiom
- command
- disposed
- eager
- fain
- find it in your heart to do sth idiom
- game
- gamely
- keen
- prepared
- raring
- readily
- readiness
- ripe for sth idiom
- shape
- speed
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