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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
willing
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be willing/prepared/happy/ready to admit sth
▪ She was willing to admit that she’d made a mistake.
ready and willing
▪ She was ready and willing to work hard.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
always
▪ Nizan is always willing to oblige with the battering ram technique, if required.
▪ Chimney sweeps are few, and are not always willing to come so far out for a couple of chimneys.
▪ None the less, they are not always willing or able to deploy this skill.
▪ My parents moan at me because I am not always willing to go to work.
▪ We are always willing to consider proposals put forward by members of the Bar.
▪ Adam joined Lyles in July 1977 and was a conscientious employee who was always willing to help out.
▪ In fact, we urged the Government to seek resolutions when they were not always willing.
▪ Token triers. Always willing to Lack-a-daisy.
less
▪ As a result they are less willing to accept the increasing costs caused by disruption and seek to recover them through claims.
▪ As bad loans proliferate, investors are less willing to buy bank debt and equity, making capital scarcer.
▪ While two companies were prepared to pay this cost for their searches, three others were less willing to do so.
▪ We might speculate that those with dementia would be less willing to participate in a research project than the mentally fit.
▪ Hong Kong manufacturers depend almost entirely on export markets, many of which have been less willing to forgive and forget.
▪ They became less willing to transfer capital to the most troubled borrowers by the conventional means of foreign direct investment.
▪ Slightly less willing to react is a chassis afflicted by over-light steering that lacks feel.
▪ Although the increase was understandable given the Government's vacillation, it made ministers even less willing to intervene.
more
▪ Semi-skilled and unskilled workers were more willing to relocate than management and professional staff.
▪ In general, computational linguists are more willing to accept computer systems that are able to process a useful range of language input.
▪ People were far more willing to use them if they were diluted in a traditional herbal infusion like chamomile.
▪ This makes manufacturers more willing to take lower prices to get established Stateside.
▪ Obviously they will be much more willing to do this if they already have plenty of spare liquidity.
▪ They may be more willing than some social workers.
▪ Campbell points out, however: that girls are more willing than boys to acknowledge the relative harmlessness of fighting.
▪ Finally, in terms of status situation Lockwood is more willing to concede a deterioration in the position of the clerical workforce.
quite
▪ Yet on the other hand governments were quite willing to disregard clearly expressed public feeling when this seemed in the national interest.
▪ He was quite willing to delegate field command to Terhune until the objective was obtained.
▪ He's quite willing to do the right thing by the girl.
▪ He seemed quite willing to lend a hand and came straight round.
so
▪ If people weren't sure of getting the victim for their money they wouldn't be so willing to pay up.
▪ Investors are so willing to believe in recovery around the corner that they will clutch at false hopes almost indefinitely.
▪ They looked so eager, so willing to be pleased.
▪ Few cultures have been so willing to tempt the gods.
▪ Once both do, neither may be so willing to be bullied.
▪ The reputations of others who may not have been so willing to be identified are sacrificed in the quest for titillation.
too
▪ At Oxford I discovered that most people were only too willing to be friendly if I gave them a chance.
▪ Wilson had nursed her and taken care of her and Phoebe was only too willing to show her gratitude.
▪ Maggie Parkin was infatuated with her husband and only too willing to believe his promise.
▪ Far too willing for my own good.
▪ High-ranking officers were only too willing to pay vastly inflated prices for a little judicious alteration and improvement to their standard uniforms.
▪ Surely one of your delightful friends would be only too willing to come back and get you.
very
▪ Plump young body. Very willing to show it off, she was.
▪ He now had a permanent and very willing model, and not only one; he had several.
▪ But we were five against double as many, and armed villains very willing to kill.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
God willing
▪ God willing, the war will end soon.
God willing
show willing
the spirit is willing (but the flesh is weak)
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Get a bike, find a willing friend, and explore the bike trails.
▪ He's not a very bright boy, but he's young, strong, and willing.
▪ She's an enthusiastic, willing learner.
▪ The police believe Davison was a willing participant in the murder.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ During our last barbecue Lucy worked with a willing heart.
▪ Houghton convinced himself he was searching so avidly for the match that he was almost willing himself to find it.
▪ It is willing and able to feed on a variety of prey species, up to the size of antelopes.
▪ My father would be willing to move with me and this of course would allow me to sell my present house.
▪ Some certainly saw her as a kind of human sacrifice, albeit a willing one.
▪ The two councillors serve the Association and the area well and are always willing to attend meetings and find out information.
▪ Under question, Edward told me a little more about Laura's past than she herself was willing to volunteer.
▪ Would they be willing to lose a little as well as win a little as the days added up to years?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Willing

Will \Will\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Willed; p. pr. & vb. n. Willing. Indic. present I will, thou willeth, he wills; we, ye, they will.] [Cf. AS. willian. See Will, n.]

  1. To form a distinct volition of; to determine by an act of choice; to ordain; to decree. ``What she will to do or say.''
    --Milton.

    By all law and reason, that which the Parliament will not, is no more established in this kingdom.
    --Milton.

    Two things he [God] willeth, that we should be good, and that we should be happy.
    --Barrow.

  2. To enjoin or command, as that which is determined by an act of volition; to direct; to order. [Obs. or R.]

    They willed me say so, madam.
    --Shak.

    Send for music, And will the cooks to use their best of cunning To please the palate.
    --Beau. & Fl.

    As you go, will the lord mayor . . . To attend our further pleasure presently.
    --J. Webster.

  3. To give or direct the disposal of by testament; to bequeath; to devise; as, to will one's estate to a child; also, to order or direct by testament; as, he willed that his nephew should have his watch.

Willing

Willing \Will"ing\, a. [From Will, v. t.]

  1. Free to do or to grant; having the mind inclined; not opposed in mind; not choosing to refuse; disposed; not averse; desirous; consenting; complying; ready.

    Felix, willing to show the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound.
    --Acts xxiv. 27.

    With wearied wings and willing feet.
    --Milton.

    [Fruit] shaken in August from the willing boughs.
    --Bryant.

  2. Received of choice, or without reluctance; submitted to voluntarily; chosen; desired.

    [They] are held, with his melodious harmony, In willing chains and sweet captivity.
    --Milton.

  3. Spontaneous; self-moved. [R.]

    No spouts of blood run willing from a tree.
    --Dryden.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
willing

early 14c., present participle adjective from will (v.1). Old English had -willendliche in compounds. Related: Willingly; willingness.

Wiktionary
willing

  1. ready to do something that is not (can't be expected as) a matter of course. n. (context rare or obsolete English) The execution of a will. v

  2. (present participle of will English)

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WordNet
willing

  1. adj. disposed or inclined toward; "a willing participant"; "willing helpers" [ant: unwilling]

  2. not brought about by coercion or force; "the confession was uncoerced" [syn: uncoerced, unforced]

  3. disposed or willing to comply; "someone amenable to persuasion"; "the spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak"- Matthew 26:41 [syn: amenable, conformable]

willing

n. the act of making a choice; "followed my father of my own volition" [syn: volition]

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Wikipedia
Willing

Willing may refer to:

  • pertaining to Will (disambiguation)
    • assigning items through a will and testament
      • saying yes or saying i will
    • assenting through Volition (psychology)
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Usage examples of "willing".

Cockle sang two songs without accompaniment, for he was not willing to risk either his hands or his instruments by exposure to the chilling wind.

He stood in a farther corner of the room, watching his delirious master with affrighted eyes, not daring to come near him, nor yet willing to leave him.

Are you willing to obtain and hand over to Delegate Efrem Sontag all information pertaining to the allomorph trait eradication and demiclone procedures developed by Galapharma for the Haluk, including details and locations of all clandestine demiclone labs that were or are now in operation, plus the total number of human-Haluk demiclones produced there?

In order to avail oneself of ambrosia, one must be willing to worship these individuals as gods.

Boyle also did not scruple to perform his own experiments and, on one occasion in my presence, even showed himself willing to anatomize a rat with his very own hands.

It proves the moral superiority of the poor, for the rich hoard all their wealth to themselves while the poor are willing to share their largesse of antimony with anybody.

There were plenty of Antler women who would be more than willing to lay with him if he so much as crooked a finger in their direction.

The death is necessary and is called for by the horse himself, making the horse a cousin to the Deer of native American myth, and ultimately to the figure of Christ, since they all give specific shape to the archetype of the Willing Sacrifice.

Summoning the same willing suspension of disbelief that makes books and movies work, the five lands of Disneyland were architecturally and ornamentally themed to evoke different American dreams.

Not many autocratic, authoritarian leaders would be willing to admit that.

For the purpose of his grand project he was quite willing to spend a long stint on Barchan, studying the Dreamsea flora and fauna and shoehorning every misfit species into his scheme.

While working as a bargeman, I had gotten into my most serious fights -- once with a man ready and willing to carve me up with a long knife.

Trahern sat silent, unmoving as the barouche halted, and Shanna glanced at him with a certain amount of trepidation, not willing to break his mood.

The horse was capable of it on his day, and I knew him to be a competent jumper and a willing battler in a close finish.

Even with the king dead, Blad would know that the queen had been willing to lie with other than her husband, and he could hardly forget that,.