READY | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of ready in English readyadjective uk /ˈred.i/ us /ˈred.i/

ready adjective (PREPARED)

Add to word list Add to word list A1 prepared and suitable for fast activity: [ + to infinitive ] Are you ready to leave?ready to Are you ready to order, Madam?ready when you are Okay, Evie, ready when you are (= I am ready to do what we have arranged). Dinner's ready! Are you ready? Hurry up - we're late.get ready We're leaving at eight o'clock, so you've got half an hour to get ready.ready for The army are said to be ready for action.be made/got ready for something The concert hall was made/got ready (= prepared) for the performance.  ready and waiting waiting and prepared to act: Secret information allowed the police to be ready and waiting when the robbers came out of the bank. See more

• If you're near the garage, could you check to see if the car's ready?
• Well, he wants the report ready by tomorrow but I can always fob him off with some excuse.
• She had to get the kids ready for school.
• The way things are, I'll never have this ready by June.
• The emergency services are ready to spring into action at a moment's notice.

Available and accessible

• accessibility
• accessible
• accessibly
• all day
• appear
• at your command idiom
• drop
• grab
• have something to play with idiom
• here
• in the public domain
• non-restricted
• nothing
• season
• stream
• unearmarked
• unfilled
• unfreeze
• unfrozen
• unlock

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Ready and willing

ready adjective (QUICK)

[ before noun ] mainly approving quick with answers, jokes, solutions, etc.: He had a ready reply to every question.ready wit He was charming, with a ready wit (= the ability to quickly say clever and funny things). Intelligence

• acuity
• acumen
• agilely
• agility
• apt
• gifted
• grey matter
• gumption
• highbrow
• horse sense
• penetratingly
• penetration
• penetrative
• perceptively
• percipiently
• well read
• well versed
• when all is said and done idiom
• whip-smart
• wisdom

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Idioms

be ready to do something be ready to roll ready to hand ready, set, go! readynoun uk /ˈred.i/ us /ˈred.i/  at the ready prepared to be used or to act immediately: He stood by the phone, pencil at the ready. See more (Definition of ready from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

ready | American Dictionary

readyadjective [ not gradable ] us /ˈred·i/

ready adjective [not gradable] (PREPARED)

Add to word list Add to word list prepared and suitable for action or use: Dinner is ready. The twins are getting ready for bed. [ + to infinitive ] I’m ready to go now. [ + to infinitive ] "Are you ready to order?" the waiter asked.

ready adjective [not gradable] (WILLING)

willing: My friends are always ready to help me out.

ready adjective [not gradable] (QUICK)

quick, esp. in answering or in thinking of what to say: He had a ready reply to every question. (Definition of ready from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

ready | Business English

readyadjective [ before noun ] uk /ˈredi/ us Add to word list Add to word list available to be used at any time: a ready source/supply  ready cash/money informal money that is available to be spent immediately: A demand by the court to pay the tax claim immediately would destroy the firm because it does not have enough ready cash. (Definition of ready from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of ready

ready We do not know, however, whether these figures were readied in every case. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They readied a stage in their proceedings when they thought that a special inquiry would be useful. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The third stage is readied when work is taken away from them compulsorily. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If one of the panels by a majority dissents from the other three, then agreement is not readied. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I hope that a decision will be readied very shortly. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In consequence paint manufacturers who have specialised in paints suitable for war purposes will in many cases have readied record turnover figures. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Although one individual might be able to afford a case costing him £5,000, he might find it much more difficult to produce the readies for a case costing him £100,000. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have readied a perfect state of things in the railway world, wherein a man or woman charged with wrongful conduct has to be informed of the complaint. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 People were ready to combine efforts to obstruct any further act of (re)presentation in order to prevent their loss of control over it. From the Cambridge English Corpus However, as the vehicle was readied for production, this emphasis on tractor-like usage decreased and the centre steering proved impractical in use. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. We play a few games until the supper is ready. From the Cambridge English Corpus We are now ready to assign triangles to segments. From the Cambridge English Corpus We are now ready to obtain the final contradiction. From the Cambridge English Corpus We are ready to prove the main step in the upper bound. From the Cambridge English Corpus We are a strong democratic country ready to take on any challenge. From the Cambridge English Corpus See all examples of ready These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of ready?

Translations of ready

in Chinese (Traditional) 準備好的, 準備好的，有準備的, 現成的… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 准备好的, 准备好的，有准备的, 现成的… See more in Spanish listo, preparado, listo/ta [masculine-feminine… See more in Portuguese pronto, preparado, pronto/-ta… See more in Marathi in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Tamil in Hindi in Gujarati in Danish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Urdu in Ukrainian in Telugu in Bengali in Czech in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Korean in Italian तयार, सज्ज / काही जलद कृती करण्यासाठी योग्य अवस्था… See more 準備ができている, （食事の）支度ができている, 用意（ようい）ができている… See more hazır, yenilmeye/kullanıma/içilmeye hazır, istekli… See more prêt/prête, prêt/prête à, accessible… See more llest, a punt… See more klaar, bereid, snel… See more தயாரிக்கப்பட்ட மற்றும் வேகமான செயல்பாட்டிற்கு ஏற்றது… See more (किसी त्वरित गतिविधि हेतु) तैयार… See more તૈયાર, સજ્જ… See more parat, klar, hurtig… See more redo, klar, färdig… See more bersedia, berkehendakkan, cepat… See more fertig, bereit, rasch… See more klar, rede, ferdig… See more تیار… See more готовий, підготовлений, легкий… See more సిద్ధం కావడం… See more প্রস্তুত, তৈরি… See more připravený, hotový, ochotný… See more siap, bersedia, cepat… See more เตรียมพร้อม, เต็มใจ, รวดเร็ว… See more đã xong, đã sẵn sàng, nhanh… See more gotowy, przygotowany, chętny… See more (-할) 준비가 된, 완성된… See more pronto, disposto, sollecito… See more Need a translator?

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More meanings of ready

• beach-ready
• oven-ready
• ready-made
• ready-made adverb, at ready-made
• ready meal
• ready money
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• at the ready phrase
• ready to hand idiom
• ready, set, go! idiom
• rough and ready idiom
• be fit/ready to drop idiom
• be ready to roll idiom
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  • Adjective 
    • ready (PREPARED)
    • ready and waiting
    • ready (QUICK)
  • Noun 
    • at the ready
• American   
  • Adjective 
    • ready (PREPARED)
    • ready (WILLING)
    • ready (QUICK)
• Business   
  • Adjective 
    • ready
    • ready cash/money
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