Approve
Ready
Ready verb - To make competent (as by training, skill, or ability) for a particular office or function.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- As soon as the children are ready to awaken, the Empress feeds Lance to them; apparently she doesn't approve of males who mistreat their mates.
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It seems unlikely that the Russians would be able to acquire the movie, approve it for use as a training tool, and get it ready for said use in a matter of ten days.
Source: Series / Agent Carter - Shounen Maid: When the protagonist's mother died, he thought (and was ready to accept) he'd be alone, but then he then learned she eloped from a wealthy family because they didn't approve his father and her brother took him in.
Source: Rules of Orphan Economics
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