I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a ready supply (= one that is easily available )
▪
The early settlers also found a ready supply of flints in the chalk cliffs.
be willing/prepared/happy/ready to admit sth
▪
She was willing to admit that she’d made a mistake.
good and ready (= completely ready )
▪
This time he waited until he was good and ready .
happy/glad/ready etc to oblige
▪
If you need a ride home, I’d be happy to oblige.
nowhere near ready/full/finished etc
▪
The building’s nowhere near finished.
ready meal
stand prepared/ready to do sth (= be prepared to do something whenever it is necessary )
▪
We should stand ready to do what is necessary to guarantee the peace.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
access
▪
Postgraduate students in the department have ready access to an exceptionally wide range of library, archive and other research resources.
▪
Delta says it has restricted the number of charter memberships to make sure participants have ready access to the discounted fares.
▪
For a start you are lost without ready access to a computer and a modem.
▪
Yet fail to promote it and it will be available only to those who have ready access to the latest medical information.
▪
For those who have ready access to the monthly issues, the benefit of this volume would be limited.
▪
Providing prevention materials to state health departments will ensure that target groups have ready access to such materials.
▪
Every church ought to provide ready access to its organ for those who are learning or may wish to learn the instrument.
▪
It is strange that Gordon, who had ready access to several mirrors, should be so enamoured of this idea.
cash
▪
Both have so far proved effective, which shows that ready cash is more versatile than credit cards and cheque books.
▪
Phagu clipped the goats and wound the hair into skeins which he would sell for ready cash in town.
▪
I pass up a roadside rest area, a happy hunting ground for new cars and ready cash .
▪
There is not so much ready cash in my treasury.
▪
With ready cash in your bank account you can spend the money as you want.
▪
He made over his share in Leopold's estate to Nannerl in return for 1,000 gulden of ready cash , which he desperately needed.
money
▪
Elizabeth followed precedents set by her ancestors in selling Crown rights in some forests for ready money .
▪
Any peasant short of ready money now had to resort to a usurer.
▪
As if Dandy would have hung on to something that could be turned into ready money !
▪
All we need is the ready money ter lay down ter secure the site an' the weekly rent.
▪
I don't really need ready money , you see.
supply
▪
So they always have a ready supply of air in their lungs with which to generate clicks and sing songs.
▪
This ensures a ready supply for a few weeks without having to repeat the process.
▪
He has a ready supply , and despite the heavy atmosphere and flat light it carries us out to Langdale.
▪
Dozens of national ticket brokers have a ready supply to pass on, albeit for a profit.
▪
It means I've always got a ready supply of paint stirring or glue sticks.
▪
A ready supply of meat that makes weekly shopping for meats unnecessary. 2.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be ready to roll
▪
After months of planning, we were finally ready to roll .
▪
As at the end of Dame Sirith, the cycle of fabliau narrative is ready to roll around again.
▪
The next morning, the plan was ready to roll .
▪
The technology is ready to roll and it's not like they've shied away in the past from fleecing motorists.
have sth ready/done/finished etc
ready/fit for the knacker's yard
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪
"Shall we go then?" "Yes, ready when you are."
▪
a ready answer
▪
Are you ready ? The taxi's here.
▪
I'm sorry, your car isn't ready yet, sir.
▪
I don't feel that I'm ready for the test yet.
▪
In a year's time, the wine will be ready to drink.
▪
Is dinner ready yet?
▪
Is everything ready for the party?
▪
It took several months to get the boat ready for the voyage.
▪
It was soon time for the actors to get ready for the evening performance.
▪
Lunch is ready !
▪
My sister always spends hours getting ready to go out.
▪
On the Internet, you have ready access to huge amounts of information.
▪
That's settled then. I'll go and get ready .
▪
The wedding guests were all ready and waiting long before the bride arrived.
▪
Wait a minute. I'm not ready yet.
▪
When everyone is ready , I'll give the signal to start.
▪
When the pasta's ready , add the sauce.
▪
Your dry cleaning will be ready on Thursday.
▪
Your suit will be ready to pick up on Wednesday.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
A well organised right-hander, he, too, seems ready to advance to higher things.
▪
Bridge that gap with over-wintering onion sets, ready to eat from May to July.
▪
City officials said the master plan should be ready in December in time for a public hearing.
▪
Hudspeth is ready to talk about lawyers in general.
▪
I was getting the table ready for the captain's breakfast.
▪
Keep warm until ready to serve.
▪
The pans scrubbed, ready for another action-packed day.
▪
There was need for haste, but all was ready .
II. verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be good and ready
ready/fit for the knacker's yard
rough and ready
▪
Here are my calculations. They're a little rough and ready as yet, but you'll get a general idea.
▪
Justice was administered in a rough and ready fashion, without using courts or juries.
▪
All have a kitchen with smoke-blackened stone walls and a rough and ready loo hut.
▪
In a rough and ready way we can divide the ways in which a government controls and influences people into three.
▪
It made the rough and ready assumption that the underlying cure of unemployment would be provided by Keynesian economics.
▪
Only rough and ready figures are available because of problems of definition.
▪
She could talk in quite rough and ready language if occasion demanded.
▪
These can never be anything more than very rough and ready guidelines.
▪
This is a rather rough and ready technique.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
Hurrying down to his men, he readied them.
▪
I waited for her to try to scream again, readying myself to leap upon her and bear her down.
III. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
get
▪
Hodgesaargh the falconer was getting ready in the tiny room next door when he felt the change in the air.
▪
Now I get my rifle ready and brace myself, making sure of my footing.
▪
For the longest time, the Raiders tried to get Brown ready to play.
▪
I do this because wife getting pregnant ready , and I worried.
▪
Nelo sat up as if getting ready for the real part of the interview.
▪
She went to work getting my supper ready .
▪
The Interior Department has agreed to spend $ 3. 3 million getting the island ready for private development.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be good and ready
be ready to roll
▪
After months of planning, we were finally ready to roll .
▪
As at the end of Dame Sirith, the cycle of fabliau narrative is ready to roll around again.
▪
The next morning, the plan was ready to roll .
▪
The technology is ready to roll and it's not like they've shied away in the past from fleecing motorists.
have sth ready/done/finished etc
ready/fit for the knacker's yard
rough and ready
▪
Here are my calculations. They're a little rough and ready as yet, but you'll get a general idea.
▪
Justice was administered in a rough and ready fashion, without using courts or juries.
▪
All have a kitchen with smoke-blackened stone walls and a rough and ready loo hut.
▪
In a rough and ready way we can divide the ways in which a government controls and influences people into three.
▪
It made the rough and ready assumption that the underlying cure of unemployment would be provided by Keynesian economics.
▪
Only rough and ready figures are available because of problems of definition.
▪
She could talk in quite rough and ready language if occasion demanded.
▪
These can never be anything more than very rough and ready guidelines.
▪
This is a rather rough and ready technique.
IV. adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
get
▪
They were getting ready , at last, to leave him.
▪
When discussion time came around, I got ready .
▪
Then she and her daughters got ready for the festival.
▪
Now, get ready to negotiate with everybody.
▪
This passed the endurance of the immortals, and Zeus got ready his thunderbolt to strike them.
▪
Or for looking to her killers like she might be getting ready , getting ready to come in.
▪
While Tom got ready I walked around the area to check on what the other orators at Speakers' Corner were saying.
▪
The sycamores, blemished bark, but very nice, brown and white, getting ready to cough up leaves.
make
▪
Early in their lives they made ready for decline.
▪
Remember, after the war our themes were ready made .
▪
She had the servants make ready an easy-running mule-cart and pack it with the soiled clothes.
▪
With helmets and pads we make ready the battle To stomp on each other like half-crazy cattle.
stand
▪
The pyre stood ready on a hillock.
▪
The international financial markets stand ready to discipline and expose fraudulent governments.
▪
Junior standing ready in a glowing shroud of mist.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
And you have the framework of your story ready made for you, a great help to the beginner.