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willing and able

1 Ready, Willing and Able

2 be able and willing

3 to be able and willing

4 to be able and willing

5 willing

быть готовым и не возражать willing pres. p. от will

готовый (сделать что-л.) ;
охотно делающий (что-л.)

добровольный;
willing help охотно оказанная помощь

старательный;
willing worker старательный работник;
willing horse работяга

добровольный;
willing help охотно оказанная помощь

старательный;
willing worker старательный работник;
willing horse работяга

старательный;
willing worker старательный работник;
willing horse работяга

6 willing

7 willing

He is willing to take the job. — Он согласен на эту работу.

He is willing to let us use the hall. — Он охотно предоставит зал в наше пользование.

He is not very willing to help. — Он не рвется помогать.

There are plenty of willing hands. — Охотников хоть отбавляй

8 able

a способный, талантливый

a умелый, умеющий;
знающий;
to be able (c inf.) уметь, мочь, быть в состоянии, в силах;
to be able to swim уметь плавать

a умелый, умеющий;
знающий;
to be able (c inf.) уметь, мочь, быть в состоянии, в силах;
to be able to swim уметь плавать

9 able seaman

10 able to work

11 able-bodied

12 able-bodied seaman

13 come-at-able

14 uncome-at-able

15 unget-at-able

16 able

to be able (с inf.) уме́ть, мочь, быть в состоя́нии, в си́лах

17 able-bodied

18 able-minded

19 come-at-able

20 get-at-able

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Ready, willing and able – different uses of “to be willing to do”

When we talk about future plans in English, the construction “to be willing to do” can be used with a few different adjectives (in place of willing), such as ready, prepared and able. In some contexts these can be used interchangeably with almost no difference in meaning, roughly meaning to be prepared to do something. The idiomatic expression ready, willing and able to … means to be incredibly eager / prepared to do something. It makes use of these multiple words reinforcing the idea of readiness/eagerness by repeating adjectives that with almost the same meaning (similar to a construction such as I am well and good). However the use of such a phrase does demonstrate there is some difference between these words, and in certain contexts the different forms of to be willing to do can have distinct meanings.

The different meanings of ready, willing, and able

In a neutral form, these three adjectives each say that you are prepared to do something, but from a slightly different perspective.

In some contexts, ready and willing can demonstrate a meaning so similar that the difference is not noteworthy, such as in different forms of the sentence “I am willing to meet with you.” Although we could analyse a different meaning in the following three sentences, the understood meaning would be the same: I am prepared to meet with you.

The differences only become clear if there is a context that makes the meanings distinct.

The idea of possibility makes ready and able very similar here, although ready suggests more preparedness while able is simpler possibility. Note, though, that even in these contexts there is flexibility; to say “I am ready to meet with you because of your good references” would be understood the same way as willing.

When the differences become more distinct

In another context, the meanings would be quite clearly different. This is usually when we are talking about a task where the type of preparedness could be interpreted differently, for example when taking a test.

The nature of preparedness may also be important if we are talking about a physical plan or action, where willing shows a choice/eagerness and ready or able shows possibility:

Willing is often used in this sense to show a choice that may be surprising or otherwise noteworthy – it emphasises that the action is being done as a result of a choice. This is the key difference, as ready and able emphasise that the action results from more basic preparedness or possibility. Again, in some contexts this emphasis does not make a difference, in other contexts it the meaning is important. It is to be especially emphatic, though, that we combine all three in the idiom, ready, willing and able:

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