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at the ready

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

Ready; in a state of preparation or waiting; in position or anticipation.

idiomatic

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Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

at the same time at the soonest at the tail at the time at the top of one's game at the top of one's lungs

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