readiness

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Preparing
batten
batten down the hatchesidiom
break someone in
bug-out bag
build (someone/something) up
dig
gear (someone/something) up
gear something to/towards someone/something
get/have your ducks in a rowidiom
gird
gird yourselfidiom
lay
prep
preparation
regroom
roll up your sleevesidiom
set something up
set the scene/stageidiom
suit
tee

Examples of preparedness

preparedness
But statesmen with military experience remained worried about the nation's state of preparedness.
Liberties figure prominently among the ethical ideals at stake in the unfolding of emergency preparedness policy.
Yet, early in the electoral cycle, opposition preparedness is lacking.
For all these reasons we suggest that the understanding of "disaster" and suggestions for adequate preparedness to respond be framed more broadly.
Agencies charged with preparedness could not help but be swept up in larger partisan and ideological struggles over national security.
Biologists prefer statements of functional relations that specify the nature of the organism's preparedness for a particular class of incentives and the specific responses displayed.
Forecasting disease risk for increased epidemic preparedness in public health.
Their decision rested upon the questionable assumption that sanitary citizens would cooperate in epidemic preparedness.
The assessment utilized was a self-report of preparedness rather than a direct assessment of skills.
As such, exaggerated stress reactivity has been conventionally viewed as a maladaptive, monotonically harmful legacy of an evolved preparedness for threat.
This relative lack of preparedness may contribute to the greater frequency of harassment among boys than girls.
Indeed, punitive sentiments must go hand in hand with a preparedness to risk cooperation if cooperation is to survive the process of natural selection.
Civil servants whose tasks focused on granting programs or disaster planning, for example, assumed that recovery was a part of their preparedness mission.
Invoking religious concepts to some suggests that an emergency preparedness emphasis in public health has divine sanction and is thus necessary and inevitable.
Nuclear fear was on the national agenda before the creation of the emergency preparedness agencies.
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Collocations withpreparedness

preparedness

These are words often used in combination with preparedness.

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disaster preparedness
Principles of using what you already use frequently and investing in resources that have multiple uses are important concepts in disasterpreparedness.
emergency preparedness
Liberties figure prominently among the ethical ideals at stake in the unfolding of emergencypreparedness policy.
lack of preparedness
This relative lackofpreparedness may contribute to the greater frequency of harassment among boys than girls.
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