get-ready
nounEtymology Deverbal from get ready.
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Rare The act of getting oneself or something ready; something done to do so.
- Thus there might be thirty-nine mechanics working on new car get-readies, new car customer policy work, and outside customer repairs, while one man struggles to keep the current stock of perhaps a hundred used cars in running order.1968, Anthony Till, What You Should Know Before You Buy a Car, Los Angeles, Calif.: Sherbourne Press, →OCLC, page 170:
- Shuffle techniques taught: The original Complete Deck Control with Riffle Shuffle, speed, cover, resistance, angles, cutting sequences, get-readies, jog usage, double hand movement, […]2001 June 30, Mystic Lake Magic, “Mystic Lakes Magic Newsletter”, in alt.magic.marketplace (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Apr 2026:
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- Blaine is mediocre at best, and duplicitous at worst. I don't mind that he doesn't show the pre-show work and the get-readies. I understand, and that's fair work to exclude on a TV show.2001 July 11, Lisa Lundgren, “What is overrated?”, in alt.magic.secrets (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Apr 2026:
- I do not think that we—or the plain, non-theorist—posit or suppose any kind of fork at all. Rather, we attend to the counterfact, and perhaps to a few earlier differences (as get-readies for the counterfact) without imagining a fork, especially not a fork in need of any accounting, and especially not a fork whose only accounting would have to be the non-accounting account of a miracle.2020, David B. Suits, “Counterfactual Comments”, in Epicurus and the Singularity of Death: Defending Radical Epicureanism, London: Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, note 5: