readinessnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈred.i.nəs/us/ˈred.i.nəs/C1 willingness or a state of being prepared for something:
[ + to infinitive ] The company has declared its readiness to fight a challenge in the courts.
The scaffolding has been put up in readiness for the repair work on the building.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Ready and willing
- agreeable
- amenable
- at sb's beck and call idiom
- at your command idiom
- be good to go idiom
- command
- disposed
- eager
- fain
- find it in your heart to do sth idiom
- game
- gamely
- keen
- prepared
- raring
- readily
- ready
- ripe for sth idiom
- shape
- speed
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