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Preparedness

noun

The state of having been made ready or prepared for use or action (especially military action). Synonyms: preparation, readiness. "Their preparation was more than adequate"

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"Preparedness" Quotes from Famous Books

... extent, at least, that conditions be made possible through which they may raise their efficiency and so increase their earning capacity to a point commensurate with their needs. A thorough-going, national system of industrial and vocational "preparedness" would ...

— Parent and Child Vol. III., Child Study and Training • Mosiah Hall

... for a minute before she came into the front room and opened the door. She had a dish towel over her right arm, opening the door with her left. Starr knew that the dish towel was merely a covering for her six-shooter, and his heart hardened a little at that fresh reminder of her preparedness and her guile. ...

— Starr, of the Desert • B. M Bower

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