combat-ready

Definitions

Examples

• Yves Albarello, MP of Seine-et-Marne, said the gunmen told police they were ready to “die as martyrs.”

• The U.S. military just unveiled a new effort to get Iraqis ready to battle ISIS.

• If he did, it could be a sign that our politicians are ready to resume genuine policy-making across party lines.

• This is a provocative subject that is ready-made for the classroom.

• The Perfect Storm writer talks combat brotherhood and the threat posed by growing wealth inequality.

• He looked strangely out of place in the dusty combat uniform.

• It secures in many cases, at least, a ready compliance with a large part of the discipline enforced.

• Later on, I believe, a child is wont to have his favourite colour, and to be ready to defend it against the preferences of others.

• The camp grew still, except for the rough and ready cook pottering about the fire, boiling buffalo-meat and mixing biscuit-dough.

• Let your orders for preparation go round tonight, so that your knaves may be ready to set out betimes to-morrow.