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willing

[wil-ing]

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adjective

disposed or consenting; inclined: willing to go along.

cheerfully consenting or ready: a willing worker.

done, given, borne, used, etc., with cheerful readiness.

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Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English. See will², -ing²

Related forms

will·ing·ly, adverb

will·ing·ness, noun

o·ver·will·ing, adjective

o·ver·will·ing·ly, adverb

o·ver·will·ing·ness, noun

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pre·will·ing, adjective

pre·will·ing·ly, adverb

pre·will·ing·ness, noun

qua·si-will·ing, adjective

qua·si-will·ing·ly, adverb

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Synonyms
1. minded.

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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.

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Example Sentences

There are tons of people looking for jobs in academics and they are willing to adjunct under awful conditions.

Business leaders replied that they are willing to help.

The higher the activation, the more people are willing to spend on punishment.

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There are tons of people looking for jobs in academics and they are willing to adjunct under awful conditions.

Business leaders replied that they are willing to help.

The higher the activation, the more people are willing to spend on punishment.

Profit is good, it is a reward for providing a product people want at a price they are willing to pay.

If the gods were willing to let the banquet go forward, they would send favorable signs and the guests could be seated.

But if you're willing to give bulbs a year or two to build themselves up in your garden, you'll get fine results with.

The monkeys were willing to forfeit cheap food simply to register their anger at the arbitrary pay scale.

Researchers surmised that because yes-or-no responses are easy, kids were willing to respond.

They found that the more education a villager had, the longer he was willing to delay gratification in return for a bigger reward.

Everyone was willing to haul in bulbs and tripods and camera cases.

After all, policing often takes effort and personal risk, and not all altruists are willing to bear those costs.

Of course, willing consumers were essential to his success.

There are dozens of species of native bees equally willing to pollinate your plants.

So seriously, in fact, that they are willing to bring in.

Then you need to decide if you are willing to follow through on an ultimatum if he doesn't make reasonable changes.

Rising losses from the mortgage mess make banks less willing to lend, which.

Tell your electric company you want wind power and are willing to pay for it.

They welcome anyone willing to push performance to unparalleled heights, limited only by imagination, ambition and determination.

Whatever plans they propose will be costly and it is uncertain who will be willing to pay for them.

It's all dymondia and will eventually fill in to meet the towns requirements, but they are not willing to wait.

Angel investors may also be more willing that venture capitalists to invest in service companies.

All of those candidates were willing to learn more about the position, to give it real consideration.

Its owners are either so green, or so keen to pinch their petrol pennies, that they were willing to buy an ugly car to prove it.

The bears' fear of whizzing traffic gives a huge advantage to moose moms willing to tolerate a little noise.

Thank you to the men and women who are willing to do a frightening job.

People who might not have talked to me several years ago were quite willing to meet and talk.

So you can forgive the crew for being somewhat less than willing to put up with further pirate provocations.

Jason has been a professor for that same decade and is perfectly willing to admit that he has no other usable skills or interests.

Chinese tourists are willing to put up with hard beds and cold noodles for a reason:.

Boback's plan requires research subjects, willing or otherwise.

Even if they do there are always agencies willing to plan new missions.

He simply tried to carry on as well as a black man could in the country he had been willing to give his life for.

The costs will be offset by advertising and a subscription-based plan for consumers willing to pay for faster access.

It's a dicey enough move, though, that few people are willing to speak on the record about rejecting a promotion.

In fact, they were willing to sacrifice quite a bit to have a thin team-mate.

To me, being open-minded means always being willing to learn and also willing to teach.

What's more, self-talk might be a tool for exerting the will-or being willing.

People become more willing to go out and raise hell over things that they might have let go when sober.

We eventually figured it out, but only if you're willing to sit crammed into a miniature.

In the pharmaceutical industry, universities appear to have found a partner willing and able to buy big chunks of their research.

Banks are almost always willing to lend against the security of property.

In fact people were willing to engage in civil disobedience to get through police lines and get to their property.

Bottled water is a convenience, and one people are willing to pay for.

He was a racist, incapable of rising above the thought of his time and place, and willing to profit from slave labor.

And a copilot willing to ignore any meticulous calculations and instead throw.

McLendon, said the three scientists were probably willing to come only as a team.

Few guests, even among the expatriate businessmen there, were willing to be seen mingling with him.

The lazy girl was willing enough to go, and thought that now the golden rain would come.

Six editorial staffers--three men and three women, none of whom had been hypnotized before--were willing to give it a try.

Maybe that's why people are so friendly here, so willing to be unhurried.

He's more than happy to oblige, as long as you're willing to cough up the necessary fee, that is.

Give them to a faculty member who knows your teaching and who is willing to write a letter recommending you as a teacher.

People are willing to reduce carbon emissions provide somebody else has to pay for it.

Encourage teachers to choose green options, or even organize a group of parents willing to pitch in for eco-conscious supplies.

Good news for those of us willing to put in the effort.

To those willing to look closely, though, the river is as fascinating as any jungle.

Power's findings show a growing number of people are willing to pony up for.

The department has said it is willing to consider changes to the formula, but maintains that it applies its rules consistently.

As the games have grown in stature, countries have been willing to spend increasing amounts on hosting them.

Perry made it quite clear he was willing to use force to accomplish his mission.

The problem lies with the academics who are willing to front as authors of these ghost-written papers.

Everyone knew all their neighbors back then and always willing to help one another and believe it is still that way.

Advancing in the game has become so important that some are willing to buy their way to the top.

In other words, you have to be willing to go, if you use the job market strategy as part of the approach.

Even if a collector is willing to sell, every dealer or auction house will be competing for the contract.

Launch your ascent from here and you're bound to pick up another willing expedition member or two.

To make you a willing host it relieves your anxieties of death and injustice by offering eternal life and divine retribution.

The site has become a popular weekend haunt for day trippers willing to squeeze through fences and scale rickety scaffolds.

Faculty must be willing to relocate during the year within the division according to program needs.

And yet hard-headed business people the world over are willing to spend millions on consultants' advice.

The government says it is willing to protect a portion of the biologically diverse.

They won't accept the non-existent risk of food radiation, but are willing to accept the risk of death from food borne illnesses.

It wasn't exactly a radical regimen, but he was willing to go further.

Nor can your students rate you over and over unless they are willing to change computers.

Not surprisingly, therefore, the number of firms willing to pitch for water business in developing countries is strictly limited.

And mine companies' quest for greater profit raises the fear that they are willing to risk the lives of their miners.

Apparently some department chairs are only too willing to drop some of their more valuable and experienced teachers.

Parents are much less willing to take on debt than they were and much more willing to look abroad for better deals.

And women aren't always willing to give up control within the dance to their partners.

Nelson replied that his group would be willing to work with hers to fight speech codes, which it has long opposed.

Mercifully few regimes, and few armies, are willing to kill large numbers of their own people to stay in power.

Someone who plays ball with you is willing to work with you.

And professors might also be willing to give up some compensation in return for flexibility.

Making bankruptcy harder tends to make borrowers more willing to lend, but consumers less willing to take on debt.

At times he has declared his innocence and then later confessed to being a willing criminal.

Maybe the administrator is inexperienced and willing to drag in faculty members during their summer break.

He cupped his hands around his mouth and called out that he was willing to buy any scraps of metal or old newspapers.

Many students had made it clear that while they were in agreement with its content, they were not willing to play the malcontent.

Moreover, they have been willing to negotiate about their contract in troubled economic times.

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auxiliary verb

am (is, are, etc.) about or going to: I will be there tomorrow. She will see you at dinner.

am (is, are, etc.) disposed or willing to: People will do right.

am (is, are, etc.) expected or required to: You will report to the principal at once.

may be expected or supposed to: You will not have forgotten him. This will be right.

am (is, are, etc.) determined or sure to (used emphatically): You would do it. People will talk.

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am (is, are, etc.) accustomed to, or do usually or often: You will often see her sitting there. He would write for hours at a time.

am (is, are, etc.) habitually disposed or inclined to: Boys will be boys. After dinner they would read aloud.

am (is, are, etc.) capable of; can: This tree will live without water for three months.

am (is, are, etc.) going to: I will bid you “Good night.”

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verb (used with object), verb (used without object)

10.

to wish; desire; like: Go where you will. Ask, if you will, who the owner is.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English willen, Old English wyllan; cognate with Dutch willen, German wollen, Old Norse vilja, Gothic wiljan; akin to Latin velle to wish

Usage note
See shall.

noun

the faculty of conscious and especially of deliberate action; the power of control the mind has over its own actions: the freedom of the will.

power of choosing one's own actions: to have a strong or a weak will.

the act or process of using or asserting one's choice; volition: My hands are obedient to my will.

wish or desire: to submit against one's will.

purpose or determination, often hearty or stubborn determination; willfulness: to have the will to succeed.

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the wish or purpose as carried out, or to be carried out: to work one's will.

disposition, whether good or ill, toward another.

Law.

a legal declaration of a person's wishes as to the disposition of his or her property or estate after death, usually written and signed by the testator and attested by witnesses.

the document containing such a declaration.

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verb (used with object)

to decide, bring about, or attempt to effect or bring about by an act of the will: He can walk if he wills it.

10.

to purpose, determine on, or elect, by an act of will: If he wills success, he can find it.

11.

to give or dispose of (property) by a will or testament; bequeath or devise.

12.

to influence by exerting will power: She was willed to walk the tightrope by the hypnotist.

verb (used without object)

13.

to exercise the will: To will is not enough, one must do.

14.

to decide or determine: Others debate, but the king wills.

Idiom

15.

at will,

at one's discretion or pleasure; as one desires: to wander at will through the countryside.

at one's disposal or command.

Origin:
before 900; (noun) Middle English will(e), Old English will(a); cognate with Dutch wil, German Wille, Old Norse vili, Gothic wilja; (v.) Middle English willen, Old English willian to wish, desire, derivative of the noun; akin to will¹

Related forms

will·er, noun

Synonyms
3. choice. 4. pleasure, disposition, inclination. 5. resolution, decision. Will, volition refer to conscious choice as to action or thought. Will denotes fixed and persistent intent or purpose: Where there's a will there's a way. Volition is the power of forming an intention or the incentive for using the will: to exercise one's volition in making a decision. 9. determine. 11. leave.

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World English Dictionary

willing (ˈwɪlɪŋ)

—*adj*
1.	favourably disposed or inclined; ready
2.	cheerfully or eagerly compliant
3.	done, given, accepted, etc, freely or voluntarily

'willingly

—*adv*

'willingness

—n

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Word Origin & History

will

O.E. will, willa, from P.Gmc. *weljon (cf. O.S. willio, O.N. vili, O.Fris. willa, Du. wil, O.H.G. willio, Ger. wille, Goth. wilja "will"), related to *willan "to wish" (see will (v.)). The meaning "written document expressing a person's wishes about disposition of property

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after death" is first recorded c.1380.

willing

O.E. willendliche; see will (v.).

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American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

willing

see ready, willing, and able; spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.