preparedness
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- noun
- /prɪˈpɛrdnəs/
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preparación
- The Israeli preoccupation with the intifada has undoubtedly affected its preparedness for the next conventional war.
- emergency preparedness
- disaster preparedness
- health preparedness
There's no excuse for the complete lack of preparedness that we saw in LA.
- There's no excuse for the complete lack of preparedness that we saw in LA.
- Trump will close the pandemic preparedness office.
- And so not to sound doom and gloom, but they don't have a, they don't have a preparedness and response problem.
- Why is preparedness such a huge risk or why is the lack of preparedness such a huge risk?
- Eventually the people of the Stillness live in a perpetual state of disaster preparedness.
- But let's listen to what Donald Trump actually suggests when it comes to our preparedness.
- So along this line, you have to show people that it was not spiritual preparedness that enabled them to walk on fire.
- We a special edition of Startalk cosmic queries disaster preparedness viruses.
- We stand a personal finance preparedness queen.
- And I have smart preppers their their preparedness plans always involve the communities in which they're embedded.
- So I think it's the drop preparedness that controls you almost as much as as the finances itself.
Examples
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COVID has highlighted for all of us the extraordinary need for pandemic preparedness for which there are no substitutes.
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And he'll talk to about the societal successes and failures of related to disaster preparedness in Japan.
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Why is preparedness such a huge risk or why is the lack of preparedness such a huge risk?
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Trump will close the pandemic preparedness office.
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We are at the highest level of preparedness.
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Not his preparedness program... ours.
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Well, sue me for trying to teach you some emergency fire preparedness.
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I could teach earthquake preparedness.
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Community resilience provides a framework with which to align emergency preparedness with the rest of public health.
Academic text (2013) -
Emergency workers train regularly to ensure their preparedness for any disaster situation.
Synonyms
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Making something ready for an event, activity, or use
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Willing and prepared to do something
Antonyms
How Ready
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Preparedness comes from prepare, where pre- means 'before', the main part means 'make ready', and the ending -ness shows a 'state'. So, preparedness is the state of being ready 'before' something happens, which is why it means being ready for action or an emergency.