ready to hand

1. 1.

   easy to reach

   “found a handy spot for the can opener”

   Synonymshandy

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Questions about ready to hand

What does ready to hand mean?

ready to hand means "easy to reach".

What is another word for ready to hand?

Close synonyms include handy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ready to hand a common word?

ready to hand is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.