readiness
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Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɹɛdinəs/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛdinəs
Noun
readiness (usually uncountable, plural readinesses)
- The state or degree of being ready; preparedness.
- readiness for civil emergencies
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.
- 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 99:
- Euston is so traditionally a part of the London scene that many will lament the passing of the old station when rebuilding is complete in readiness for the new electric service, which will probably be by multiple-units between Euston and Wolverhampton.
- Willingness.
- his readiness to help
- 1976 December 18, Tommi Avicolli, “Previn's Bleak Book Has Note of Hope”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 25, page 18:
- It was a long, enduring scream — one that would send her back into a time and into a childhood which had been forgotten with the readiness that we forget unpleasant moments in our lives.
Translations
state or degree of being ready
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