What does ready mean

Crossword clues for ready

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

ready

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.