make sth ready
Frequency: 5.02.5 per million words
to cause a thing to become prepared, often more formal
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Examples (10)
- The ground crew worked tirelessly to make the plane ready for its early morning departure.
- Please make the meeting room ready by 9 AM.
- The chef will make the ingredients ready before the cooking demonstration begins.
- They made themselves ready for the long journey ahead.
- It took hours to make the old house ready for the new tenants.
- We need to make everything ready before the guests arrive.
- Has she made the presentation ready yet?
- The construction workers are making the site ready for the foundation.
- He was asked to make the documents ready for signing.
- The warships were soon made ready.