WordNet
adj. being and remaining ready and available for use; "waiting cars and limousines lined the curb"; "found her mother waiting for them"; "an impressive array of food ready and waiting for the guests"; "military forces ready and waiting" [syn: waiting, ready and waiting(p)]
Usage examples of "ready and waiting".
Below, in the courtyard of Police Headquarters, two vans packed with men stood ready and waiting to go.
The menagerie of teddy bears and rabbits, and the sad stuffed kangaroo without which she could not sleep were all ready and waiting in the hall.
He knew the centaur warriors and people were ready and waiting with everything they could scrounge from within the town to use as a weapon.
They lay ready and waiting in a griprack on the corridor wall beside the inner door of the air lock.