foreready

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verb

To make ready ahead of time; prepare in advance.

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Meanings

verbforeready (third-person singular simple present forereadies, present participle forereadying, simple past and past participle forereadied)

present singular third person forereadies · participle present forereadying · participle past forereadied · past forereadied

  1. nonstandardraretransitiveTo make ready ahead of time; prepare in advance.

    Plainly, he had forereadied them. I thought more of him for that, not less, having had many hours of my life wasted by lackwits unprepared for the audiences they had gained with me.

    2010, H. N. Turteltaub, Justinian
  2. intransitivenonstandardrareTo become ready; to prepare oneself.

    If l am a lifemaster l have the same "right" to a museum as these other men & have a full right to foreready for it while l am alive.

    1995, Percy Grainger's Gift to the Land of His Birth

Origin

From fore- + ready. Compare Dutch voorbereiden.

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APA

foreready. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foreready

MLA

“foreready.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foreready. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “foreready,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foreready.

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