Busy and Ready

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Busy

Busy adjective - Involved in often constant activity.
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Ready and busy are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Ready" instead an adjective "Busy".
Nearby Words: busily, busyness, busied, busying

Ready

Ready adjective - Being in a state of fitness for some experience or action.
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Busy and ready are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Busy" instead an adjective "Ready".
Nearby Words: readiness, readily, readying, readied
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Common collocations

parents busy parents ready parents
case busy case ready case
time busy time ready time
bit busy bit ready bit
Other words: mother, nothing, times, swords.

Both words in one sentence

  • The Bartender When one pretty girl does look ready to pour out her troubles, Xander brushes her off because he's too busy worrying about Buffy getting plastered with those same frat boys.
    Source: The Bartender
  • Recoome, who was busy pounding the heroes relentlessly, starts to get riled up and ready to attack...
    Source: Shut Up Scary Thing
  • If It Bleeds, It Leads America (The Book) gives a huge Take That to the news media for indulging in this, pointing out how they were busy covering the Kobe Bryant rape case while America was getting ready to invade Iraq.
    Source: If It Bleeds, It Leads
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