{
    "term": "ready",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "fully prepared for what you are going to do and able to start it immediately",
            "sensetop": "ready for somethingready to do something",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Just a minute—I'm **almost ready**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Are you nearly ready?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘Shall we go?’ ‘I'm **ready when you are**!’"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm just **getting** the kids **ready** for school.",
                    "contextForm": "ready for something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Right, we're ready to go.",
                    "contextForm": "ready to do something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We were **getting ready** to go out."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Volunteers were **ready and waiting** to pack the food in boxes."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He's always ready with a quick answer."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I think we're just about ready to start."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I was all ready to leave when the phone rang."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm trying to get the children ready to leave."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Our troops keep training all the time to remain ready."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We're definitely ready for the show tonight."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["appear", "be", "feel"],
                "adverb": ["all", "completely", "totally"],
                "preposition": ["for", "with"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "having the experience, attitude, etc. that you need in order to be able to deal with something",
            "sensetop": "ready for somethingready to do something",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Her husband wants to start a family, but she isn't ready."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I’m not sure if Karen is ready for marriage yet.",
                    "contextForm": "ready for something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I was twenty years old and **ready for anything**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He is clearly not ready to take on such an important role.",
                    "contextForm": "ready to do something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He didn't feel quite ready for marriage."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I feel ready for anything!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was concerned to protect the children from the truth until she judged them ready to hear it."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "completed and available to be used",
            "sensetop": "ready for somethingready to do something",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Come on, dinner's ready!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The new building should be ready by 2030."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Can you help me **get** everything **ready** for the party?",
                    "contextForm": "ready for something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The contract will be ready to sign in two weeks.",
                    "contextForm": "ready to do something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I've left everything ready in the kitchen."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'll get all the boxes ready."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The cases are ready for delivery."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The suitcases were standing ready by the front door."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The plane was refuelled and declared ready for service again."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["appear", "be", "feel"],
                "adverb": ["all", "completely", "totally"],
                "preposition": ["for", "with"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "available to be used easily and immediately",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "All the relevant records are **ready to hand**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a ready supply of wood"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a ready source of income"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Please have your tickets ready for inspection."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He held his gun ready."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The warships were soon made ready."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "willing and quick to do or give something",
            "sensetop": "ready for somethingready with somethingready to do something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I was very angry and ready for a fight.",
                    "contextForm": "ready for something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's always ready with advice.",
                    "contextForm": "ready with something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He's always **ready and willing** to help.",
                    "contextForm": "ready to do something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Don't be so ready to believe the worst about people."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was only too ready to believe the worst of him."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Connors was more than ready to oblige."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He's always ready to help."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["appear", "be", "seem"],
                "adverb": ["more than", "only too", "very"],
                "phrases": ["ready and willing"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "likely to do something very soon",
            "sensetop": "ready to do something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She looked ready to collapse at any minute."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "on the point of"
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 7,
            "definition": "needing something as soon as possible",
            "sensetop": "ready for something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Right, I'm ready for bed."
                },
                {
                    "text": "After the long walk, we were all ready for a rest."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 8,
            "definition": "quick and clever",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She has great charm and a ready wit."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to prepare for something; to prepare something for something",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to make ready for the President’s visit"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "what you say to tell people to start a race",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "ready to start",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The show is just about ready to roll."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈredi/",
                "audio": "re/ready/ready__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈredi/",
                "audio": "re/ready/ready__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old English rǣde (from a Germanic base meaning ‘arrange, prepare’; related to Dutch gereed) + -y."
}