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What does readiness mean?

readiness

(= preparation) the state of having been made ready or prepared for use or action (especially military action) putting them in readiness their preparation was more than adequate (= eagerness, zeal, forwardness) prompt willingness readiness to continue discussions they showed no eagerness to spread the gospel they disliked his zeal in demonstrating his superiority he tried to explain his forwardness in battle (= set) (psychology) being temporarily ready to respond in a particular way the subjects' set led them to solve problems the familiar way and to overlook the simpler solution his instructions deliberately gave them the wrong set (= facility) a natural effortlessness they conversed with great facility a happy readiness of conversation — -Jane Austen

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Simple sentences

It is correct to say that psychological readiness is important in this therapy.
We were more than satisfied when the Romanian Government, even before its membership of the European Union, showed its readiness to accept this directive.

Movie subtitles

I have everything in readiness for you.
Right after the murders, we found the defendant's bags packed and everything put away in readiness for an immediate departure?
The readiness is all.
It is, my liege, and all things are in readiness.
Third-degree readiness, sir?
Assume third-degree readiness.
She will hold herself in readiness.
Readiness report.
I think the Pentagon has given us an exercise to test our readiness.
I even had a body preserved in ice, in readiness.
Well, we've gone to Condition Blue, which is our lowest form of readiness.
You went to the next state of readiness.
I have brought our forces to a condition of full readiness.
You'll hold yourself in readiness for a return flight to Russia as soon as our reply is ready.
The public servants announce the strength and readiness of their troops to the dignitaries.
Have everything in readiness aboard.
Today the 4th southern fleet was ordered to a state of urgent readiness.
Your Highness, his old-fashioned virtues are always in readiness, like the strings of a harp.
Put the entire command on combat readiness right away.
I'd appreciate it if you'd hold yourselves in readiness and, of course, you understand that everything that you've seen and heard is classified.
I think the Pentagon has given us an exercise to check our readiness.
Keep tea in readiness.
Dona Chimene will hold herself in readiness.
All will be in readiness.
Is everything in readiness?
Chekov, maintain battle readiness.
Report casualties and operational readiness to the first officer.
All banks in readiness for disruption of power sources on the planet surface.
Biggin, this is Ops B. Check 501 back in readiness.

News and current affairs

Many major companies, including in the oil industry, have expressed their readiness to support sustainable development goals.
Moreover, the time to test readiness of the Nevada test site has been moved up from three years to two years, and funding has been provided to produce additional fissile material for new nuclear weapons.
While Meshal maintained a hardline stance in his speech in Gaza (see below), in private discussions he expressed a readiness to accept a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders.
But the success of such an approach depends on Israel's readiness to engage Hamas, which it continues to regard as a terrorist group, and on the viability of Egyptian mediation.
During the meeting, the Chinese leaders emphasized their readiness to support agricultural research as well.
In Poland, a country of 40 million people, the government initially expressed a readiness to accept 2,000 refugees - but only Christians (Slovakia proposed a similar stipulation).
Indeed, Mashal's decision has effectively ended his ties to his two most important allies, thereby not only weakening his position, but also increasing his readiness to embrace political moderation.
Leaders such as Mashal, who has expressed a readiness to forsake alliances with Syria and Iran and to accept a two-state solution with Israel, should be bolstered rather than boycotted.
The EU's suspension of sanctions and general readiness to engage constructively make sense.
Iran could easily do what Japan does - hold enrichment facilities in readiness to make a bomb without actually doing so.
Worldwide, the detentions at Guantanamo Bay and President Bush's military tribunals have become symbols of America's readiness to abandon concern for rights in the name of the struggle against terrorism.
Smiling is a universal human practice, although readiness to smile at strangers varies according to culture.
His economic good fortune, combined with his readiness to stand up to the West, has created a misguided impression in Russia that the country is, once again, a world power.
In late 2014, Russia cut off Ukraine completely, again signaling its readiness to use gas supplies as a weapon of foreign policy.
The type of rescheduling proposed here would signal the Greek government's readiness to service its debt in full, and thus might be accepted without too much disruption in financial markets.
As always, much will depend on America's readiness to move away from military solutions and rigid ideological imperatives and instead embrace the pragmatic culture of conflict resolution.
They acknowledge that in some circumstances intervention, or at least the readiness to intervene, may be effective, but only if a number of associated conditions are met.
In particular, a country planning to intervene must demonstrate that it has an intimidating stockpile of foreign-exchange reserves, and the readiness to use it.
Maintaining the world's fifth-largest army in a perpetual state of combat readiness is crushingly expensive for one of its poorest countries, with the military budget claiming an estimated one-third of GDP.
During the meeting, the Chinese leaders emphasized their readiness to support agricultural research as well. They described new high-yield rice varieties, which they are prepared to share with their African counterparts.
The leaks supposedly unveil a Chinese readiness to accept the reunification of Korea in favor of South Korea.
Those failures arose from a consideration of various particular domestic interests, as well as a lack of readiness to take risks for a good cause.
Several countries in the Arabian Peninsula, just across the Red Sea from the Horn, are also showing an encouraging readiness to deploy their oil earnings for emergency relief and long-term development.
America's readiness to stand by them when the game gets rough will determine the strength and size of its security-alliance system in Asia in the years ahead.
The most conclusive evidence of Xi's readiness to challenge the established order lies in the economic sphere.
The air force is to continue its monitoring activities in neighboring airspace and maintain response readiness against air attack, while modifying invasion response tactics somewhat as the likelihood of an attack from the air diminishes.

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