readiness

read·y  (rd)

adj. read·i·er, read·i·est

1. Prepared or available for service, action, or progress: I am ready to work. The soup will be ready in a minute. The pupils are ready to learn to read.

2. Mentally disposed; willing: He was ready to believe her.

3. Likely or about to do something: She is ready to retire.

4. Prompt in apprehending or reacting: a ready intelligence; a ready response.

5. Available: ready money.

tr.v. read·ied, read·y·ing, read·ies

To cause to be ready.

Idioms:

at the ready

Available for immediate use: soldiers with machine guns at the ready; students with notebooks at the ready.

make ready

To make preparations.

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[Middle English redy, from Old English rde; see reidh- in Indo-European roots.]

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readi·ness n.

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readiness [ˈrɛdɪnɪs]

n

1. the state of being ready or prepared, as for use or action

in readiness

a.  prepared and waiting all was in readiness for the guests' arrival

b.  in preparation for he tidied the house in readiness for the guests' arrival

3. willingness or eagerness to do something

4. ease or promptness

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Readiness 

(See also PREPARATION.)

all systems go All set, everything’s ready, let ‘er roll. This expression denoting readiness for an undertaking gained frequency following the televised space flights of the 1960s and 70s, but its popularity soon waned. As originally used, it indicated that all of a spacecraft’s systems were functioning properly so the countdown could begin and the launching occur.

A-OK This recent (1960s) American version of A1 gained currency from television coverage of the space flights. Astronauts used the term to denote the condition of a spacecraft’s systems, or their own situation. In common usage its connotations are less of superiority and excellence than of preparedness or satisfactoriness.

Barkis is willin’ Availability, willingness, readiness; eagerness, desirousness. Charles Dickens gave us the phrase in David Copperfield. Barkis is enamored of the maid to David’s mother. On learning from the youth that she is not spoken for, he sends her the message, via David, that “Barkis is willin’.”

loaded for bear To be prepared for any possibility; to be armed and ready to fight; to have girded up one’s loins. This phrase originated during the westward movement, when a man was not considered ready for hunting unless he had enough ammunition to kill a bear. The expression, as used by E. G. Love, is cited in Webster’s Third:

Learning that every outfit … was of full strength, sober, and loaded for bear.

The expression has recently acquired the additional meaning of being drunk, undoubtedly as a lengthening of the common term loaded ‘to be intoxicated.’

the noose is hanging Everything is set; everyone is ready and waiting. This expression alludes to the restive anticipation of a crowd awaiting a public hanging. The phrase has never gained widespread popularity.

The noose is ready—All the musicians are primed for a real cutting session. (E. Home, For Cool Cats and Far-Out Chicks, 1957)

raring to go Enthusiastically eager to begin; primed, psyched, ready. This American slang expression, of uncertain origin, has been in print since the early 1900s. Raring may be related to roaring or rearing (as of horses), but either connection is pure hypothesis.

Both sides are rarin’ to go, and they are not liable to touch their peremptory challenges. (F. N. Hart, The Bellamy Trial 1923)

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readiness

• impromptu - Based on Latin in promptu, "in readiness," from promptus, "prepared, ready."
• procinct - A state of readiness or preparation.
• stand by - Meaning "to await, support," it was an order to hold one's self in readiness, recorded from 1669.
• gear - Its etymological meaning is "that which puts one in a state of readiness."

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The ability of US military forces to fight and meet the demands of the national military strategy. Readiness is the synthesis of two distinct but interrelated levels. a. unit readiness--The ability to provide capabilities required by the combatant commanders to execute their assigned missions. This is derived from the ability of each unit to deliver the outputs for which it was designed. b. joint readiness--The combatant commander's ability to integrate and synchronize ready combat and support forces to execute his or her assigned missions. See also military capability; national military strategy.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	readiness - the state of having been made ready or prepared for use or action (especially military action); "putting them in readiness"; "their preparation was more than adequate" preparedness, preparation state - the way something is with respect to its main attributes; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state" armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker" ready - poised for action; "their guns were at the ready" alert, qui vive - condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action; "bombers were put on alert during the crisis"
	2.	readiness - prompt willingness; "readiness to continue discussions"; "they showed no eagerness to spread the gospel"; "they disliked his zeal in demonstrating his superiority"; "he tried to explain his forwardness in battle" eagerness, forwardness, zeal willingness - cheerful compliance; "he expressed his willingness to help"
	3.	readiness - (psychology) being temporarily ready to respond in a particular way; "the subjects' set led them to solve problems the familiar way and to overlook the simpler solution"; "his instructions deliberately gave them the wrong set" set cognitive state, state of mind - the state of a person's cognitive processes psychological science, psychology - the science of mental life
	4.	readiness - a natural effortlessness; "they conversed with great facility"; "a happy readiness of conversation"--Jane Austen facility effortlessness - the quality of requiring little effort; "such effortlessness is achieved only after hours of practice"

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readiness

noun

1. willingness, inclination, eagerness, keenness, aptness, gameness (informal) their readiness to co-operate with the new US envoy

2. preparedness, preparation, fitness, maturity, ripeness a constant state of readiness for war

3. promptness, facility, ease, skill, dexterity, rapidity, quickness, adroitness, handiness, promptitude the warmth of his personality and the readiness of his wit

in readiness prepared, set, waiting, primed, ready, all set, waiting in the wings, at the ready, at or on hand, fit The capital waited in readiness for the President's arrival.

Translations

readiness [ˈredɪnɪs] N

1. (= willingness) → buena disposición f
his readiness to help us → su buena disposición para ayudarnos

2. (= preparedness) we laid the tables in readiness for the guests → preparamos las mesas para la llegada de los invitados
equipment that is kept in readiness for an emergency → material que se mantiene listo or preparado para una emergencia
to hold o.s. in readiness (for sth) → mantenerse listo(para algo)

3. (= sharpness) readiness of wit → viveza f de ingenio

readiness [ˈrɛdinəs] n

(= willingness) → empressement m

(= preparedness) → état m de préparation
in readiness for sth → en préparation de qch
state of readiness [troops] → état d'alerte

readiness

n

→ Bereitschaft f; readiness for war → Kriegsbereitschaft f; to be (kept) in readiness (for something) → (für etw) bereitgehalten werden; his readiness to help → seine Hilfsbereitschaft

(= ease) → Leichtigkeit f

readiness [ˈrɛdɪnɪs] n → prontezza
to be in readiness for → essere pronto/a per