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readiness | American Dictionary

readiness
noun[ U ]
us/ˈred·i·nəs/
the state of being ready or prepared:
Military readiness is the country’s overriding concern.

Examples of readiness

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The need-state of the listener might also influence the readiness to elicit significant messages from others and\\or to interpret the messages as especially significant.
A foremost explanation for judges' readiness to request and adopt therapeutic recommendations is the predominance of the 'best interest of the child' criterion, discussed earlier.
If so, future research may reveal among people in later life less need for freedom from obligations and more readiness for societal contributions.
No less revealing was die supposedly sober businessman's readiness to enter the highly dangerous and speculative world of piracy.
It reacted by assuring the authorities that it would abide by all orders and by asserting its readiness to co-operate.
The relationship of life change to academic performance among selected college freshmen at varying levels of college readiness.
This might account for my readiness to accept the written word as a valuable means of complementary documentation to my own practical research.
Experimental protocols were brought to readiness and each was applied to fill grids that evaluated them in order to validate the effect of structures.
This shows that she is oriented to the ambiguity surrounding the recipient's state of readiness to receive talk.
The application of calorimetry to seed germination may provide bioenergetic information for understanding physiological and biochemical processes and readiness for germination.
Continuity of care allows for an assessment of patient readiness to discuss end-of-life issues, including hospice.
If so, then would there be any interaction between family history and linguistic signs of readiness?
Now it is not easy to see in just what this lack of readiness consists.
Their experiments are thus not designed in such a way that they might explore the phenomena of smooth coping or readiness to hand.
The dynamics changed in readiness for a death.
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Collocations withreadiness

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These are words often used in combination with readiness.

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combat readiness
They assume another set of obligations as members of an armed service, such as maintaining combat readiness and maximizing the fighting strength of the force.
high readiness
There will be a problem about the training necessary for highreadiness reserves.
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