combat-ready

[ kom-bat-red-ee, kuhm- ]

/ ˈkɒm bætˈrɛd i, ˈkʌm- /

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adjective

sufficiently equipped, trained, and numerically strong to engage an enemy.

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He looked strangely out of place in the dusty combat uniform.
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It secures in many cases, at least, a ready compliance with a large part of the discipline enforced.
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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.
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The camp grew still, except for the rough and ready cook pottering about the fire, boiling buffalo-meat and mixing biscuit-dough.
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Let your orders for preparation go round tonight, so that your knaves may be ready to set out betimes to-morrow.
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