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单词 ready
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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.

More examples

  • 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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