English dictionary: words starting with ready

adjective

In a suitable state for an action or situation; fully prepared.

Usage examples:

Are you ready, carrie?

noun

Available money; cash.

Usage examples:

They, somehow, made readies available to keep their friend in the style to which he had become accu…

verb

Prepare (someone or something) for an activity or purpose.

Usage examples:

The spare transformer was readied for shipment

combining form

Denoting something that is available, suitable, or prepared for a particular use or purpose.

Usage examples:

An oven-ready chicken

idiom

To be extremely tired

Usage examples:

I'd just walked ten miles and was ready to drop.

adjective

Used to describe clothes that are produced in standard sizes, and not ones that are made to fit a particular person

Usage examples:

Ready-to-wear fashion, a ready-to-wear collection

noun

The period between 8 and 11 at night when the largest number of people are watching television

Usage examples:

Prime time programs

noun

Money that is available to be spent immediately

verb

Prepare (someone or something) for an activity or purpose.

Usage examples:

The spare transformer was readied for shipment

adjective

In a suitable state for an action or situation; fully prepared.

Usage examples:

Are you ready, carrie?

noun

Available money; cash.

Usage examples:

They, somehow, made readies available to keep their friend in the style to which he had become accu…

noun

Made to a standard size or specification rather than to order.

Usage examples:

A range of ready-made curtains