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ready money

Cash funds that are immediately at hand to spend. I hear he has expensive taste, so if you're going to date him, be sure you've got plenty of ready money. Good thing his wife's family has plenty of ready money. I don't know how they could afford to raise a child otherwise.

*ready (to do something)

prepared to do something. (*Typically: be ~; get ~.) Get ready to jump! It's time to get ready to go to work.

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And when we combine the rhetoric of Hindutva with the hysteria it so readily generates among Hindus, it could become the readiest killing device of contemporary times.

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In the Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit Herder writes: "A divine economy has certainly ruled over the human species from it's first origin, and conducted him into his course the readiest way" (1808: 230).

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What had changed between the two productions was, of course, the death of James V, an event which robbed Lyndsay of his master and protege and the nation of the readiest agent of political and social reform.

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