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ready room

noun

  1. a room in which members of an aircrew await their orders for takeoff.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of ready room1

An Americanism dating back to 1940–45
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Example Sentences

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In an interview with the Paramount+ show “The Ready Room,” Ms. Wersching described playing the Borg Queen as “certainly a little intimidating.”

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The achievement and determination required to successfully transition from a sharecropper shack in Mississippi to the ready room of a combat squadron of naval aviators deserve praise; to accomplish that as a Black man in the ’40s justly deserves a book and a movie — and a more enlightened review.

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The moment he walked into the pilot’s ready room on the ship, a group of intelligence officers began firing questions.

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“I was watching it before I came to the ready room and I was like, Jeez, this kid’s insane, she definitely got the blood flowing. She got me pumped up.”

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Before the race, the field gathered in the ready room.

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