ready: Meaning and Definition of

read•y

1. completely prepared or in fit condition for immediate action or use: troops ready for battle; Dinner is ready.
2. duly equipped, completed, adjusted, or arranged, as for an occasion or purpose: The mechanic called to say that the car is ready.
3. willing: ready to forgive.
4. prompt or quick in perceiving, comprehending, speaking, writing, etc.
5. proceeding from or showing such quickness: a ready reply.
6. prompt or quick in action, performance, manifestation, etc.: a keen mind and ready wit.
7. inclined; disposed; apt: too ready to criticize others.
8. in such a condition as to be imminent; likely at any moment: a tree ready to fall.
9. immediately available for use: a ready source of cash.
10. pertaining to prompt payment.
11. present or convenient: to lie ready to one's hand.
12. (in calling the start of a race) be prepared to start: Get ready! Get set! Go!
1. to bring to a state of readiness or completion; prepare.
2. Print.to ready a press for printing.

1. to make ready; prepare.
2. and Australian Slang. to swindle.

1. the state or condition of being ready.
2. ready money; cash.
3. in a condition of readiness, available for immediate use: shoppers with their umbrellas at the ready; soldiers keeping their weapons at the ready.

1. (used in calling the start of a race to indicate that racers should be prepared to start): Ready! Set! Go!