readiness check
Are you set?
A readiness check is a systematic assessment to confirm that everything needed is in place before proceeding.
The term appears across contexts—military units conduct readiness checks before deployment, software systems run them before updates, medical teams perform them before surgery.
The check verifies personnel, equipment, conditions, or systems are prepared: We ran a final readiness check before launch.
- inspectionFormal assessment of condition
- checklistItemized verification guide
- preflightBefore aircraft takes off
- countdownBackward enumeration to zero
- all systems goComplete operational preparedness
standby · prepared · assessment · drill · battle stations · briefing · green light · status · clearance · verification · equipment · protocol · alert · armed · lock and load · staged · inventory · final walkthrough
- checkspaycheck, preflight, final review, checkup, checklist
- military inspectionsuniform inspection, barracks inspection, locker inspection, bunk inspection, field inspection
- military inspectorsinspector general, barracks inspection, field inspection
readiness checkwinging it
Proceeding without preparation
cold start · improvisation · flying blind · jumping in · shooting from the hip
readiness checkexecution
Completing a planned task
main event · implementation · performance · after-action review · post-mortem
readiness, ready, readily, readier, readiest, unready, check, checks, checked