(readier, readiest, readies, ~ing, readied)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If someone is ~, they are properly prepared for something. If something is ~, it has been properly prepared and is now able to be used.
It took her a long time to get ~ for church...
Are you ~ to board, Mr. Daly?...
Tomorrow he would tell his pilot to get the aircraft ~...
ADJ: v-link ADJ, oft ADJ for n, ADJ to-inf
2.
If you are ~ for something or ~ 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 ~ for marriage...
You’ll have no trouble getting him into a normal school when you feel he’s ~ to go.
ADJ: v-link ADJ, usu ADJ for n, ADJ to-inf
3.
If you are ~ to do something, you are willing to do it.
They were ~ to die for their beliefs...
= willing
ADJ: v-link ADJ to-inf
4.
If you are ~ for something, you need it or want it.
I don’t know about you, but I’m ~ for bed...
ADJ: v-link ADJ for n
5.
To be ~ to do something means to be about to do it or likely to do it.
She looked ~ to cry...
ADJ: v-link ADJ to-inf
6.
You use ~ to describe things that are able to be used very quickly and easily.
Why does German industry enjoy such a ~ supply of well-trained and well-motivated workers?
ADJ: ADJ n
7.
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 ~ cash.
ADJ: ADJ n
8.
When you ~ something, you prepare it for a particular purpose. (FORMAL)
John’s soldiers were ~ing themselves for the final assault...
VERB: V n for n
9.
Ready combines with past participles to indicate that something has al~ been done, and that therefore you do not have to do it yourself.
You can buy ~-printed forms for wills at stationery shops...
COMB in ADJ
10.
If you have something at the ~, you have it in a position where it can be quickly and easily used.
Soldiers came charging through the forest, guns at the ~.
PHRASE: usu n PHR