readiness

IPA: rˈɛdinʌs

Examples of "readiness" in Sentences

The selective service system plans what it calls a readiness exercise.
Our soldiers were in readiness to clear the court of its noisy vermin.
Next day, the mast-steps clear and everything in readiness, we started to get the two topmasts aboard.
Everything in readiness, I made a line fast to the apex of the shears and carried it directly to the windlass.
That may be the place where we can address what we call the readiness gap even before students get to kindergarten.
Whatever your communitys values are, articulating the mission of a parent-school alliance creates clarity and what I call readiness for change.
Mrs. McFee, emerging from the supper-room where all was in readiness, caught one flash of the blazing, questing eyes through the silken mask - slits, and received a start.
Since the 1970s, several schools scattered around New Hampshire have placed kindergarteners in what they call readiness classes for up to a year before starting first grade; the classes are usually smaller and promote social development as much as academics.