Definition
Ready; in a state of preparation or waiting; in position or anticipation.
In Context
- "The soldiers held their rifles at the ready and listened for the enemy."
- "The soldiers' rifles were at the ready."
- "Her apartment is filled with evidence of a furiously busy creative life: […] a laptop perched on a crate atop the dining table; lyric revisions in notebooks on a music stand by an ever-at-the-ready guitar."