# ready

Pronunciation: say "RED-ee" /ˈɹɛd.i/

## Adjective

1. Prepared and able to be used or to act without delay.
   - Simple: Fully prepared and able to start or be used right away.
   - _After months of training, the climbers were finally ready for the ascent._
   - _Keep the lifeboats ready in case the alarm sounds._
2. Inclined or likely to act in a particular way; apt to do something.
   - Simple: Likely or willing to do something at once.
   - _She is too ready to assume the worst about people._
   - _Critics were ready to praise the novel long before reading it fully._
4. Available at hand and easy to use at the very moment it is needed; convenient.
   - Simple: Close by and easy to reach or use when needed.
   - _The shop kept a ready stock of batteries for last-minute buyers._
   - _Travelers value a ready source of clean drinking water along the trail._
5. Liable to happen or to act at any moment; on the verge of something.
   - Simple: About to happen or do something at any moment.
   - _The volcano had been rumbling for days and seemed ready to erupt._
   - _His voice shook, and he looked ready to burst into tears._
6. Quick in action or perception; not slow or hesitating.
   - Simple: Quick to act or to understand, without delay or doubt.
   - _Her ready grasp of the figures impressed the whole committee._
   - _The guide had a ready reply for even the strangest tourist question._

## Verb

3. To prepare something or someone, making it fit for action or use.
   - Simple: To get something prepared so it can be used or done.
   - _Engineers worked through the weekend to ready the rocket for launch._
   - _The general readied his troops for the coming offensive._

## Adverb

7. Already; beforehand or in advance of the moment in question.
   - Simple: Beforehand, or already done in advance.
   - _The supper sat ready prepared on the table when the family came in._
   - _We bought the pizza dough ready made, so dinner took only twenty minutes._

## Noun

8. Slang for cash; money immediately available to spend. *(slang)*
   - Simple: Cash, or money you can spend right away.
   - _The seller only took readies, so we had to find a cash machine before the sale._
   - _He insisted on being paid in readies so there would be no record of the job._

## Origin

From Middle English redy, an alteration of earlier irede, from Old English rǣde, ġerǣde ("prepared, prompt, ready, ready for riding"), from Proto-Germanic *garaidijaz, from a base *raidaz ("ready"). This traces to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to count, put in order, arrange" and was probably also conflated with a root *reydʰ- ("to ride") in the sense of "fit to go." It is related to Dutch gereed, German bereit, and Swedish redo, all meaning "ready."

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/ready (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).