Usually means: Prepared and equipped for action.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word ready:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. ready: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. ready, the ready: Merriam-Webster
  3. ready: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. ready: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. ready, the ready: Collins English Dictionary
  6. ready: Vocabulary.com
  7. Ready, ready: Wordnik
  8. ready: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Ready, ready: Wiktionary
  10. ready: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. ready: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. ready: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Ready, Ready, ready, ready: Dictionary.com
  14. ready: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. ready: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Ready (Alessia Cara song), Ready (B.o.B song), Ready (Ella Mai EP), Ready (Fabolous song), Ready (Kodaline song), Ready (Ruel EP), Ready (Sandy Lam album), Ready (Trey Songz album), Ready (sports club), Ready: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Ready: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. ready: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. ready: Rhymezone
  20. ready: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. ready: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Ready: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. ready: FreeDictionary.org
  24. ready: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. ready: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. ready: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ready: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ready: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  3. READY: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. ready: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ready, ready, ready: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

(Note: See readied as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Prepared for immediate action or use.
adjective:  Inclined; apt to happen.
adjective:  Liable at any moment.
adjective:  Not slow or hesitating; quick in action or perception of any kind.
adjective:  Offering itself at once; at hand; opportune; convenient.
verb:  (transitive) To prepare; to make ready for action.
noun:  (slang) Ready money; cash.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Grayson County, Kentucky, United States.

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