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- adjective Not
well prepared . Not ready, or notin condition to do a task.
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Examples
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By design, Pell Grants funnel money to institutions of “higher education” to pay the tuition and other institutional expenses of students who are so ill-prepared for learning at these institutions that the odds of their ever graduating are quite low.
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There is no bias toward students ill-prepared for higher education.
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Urban mob violence against Western targets adds a disturbing new threat in a country that is fighting a mostly rural insurgency, and where foreign and local security forces are ill-prepared for riot control.
Petraeus Says Quran Burning Endangers War Effort Yaroslav Trofimov 2011
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Tamerlane: The main thing Pell Grants do is burden individuals who are ill-prepared for post-secondary education with massive amounts ofdebt ...
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By design, Pell Grants funnel money to institutions of “higher education” to pay the tuition and other institutional expenses of students who are so ill-prepared for learning at these institutions that the odds of their ever graduating are quite low.
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Restricted to two senior players at their Chigwell training ground in the build-up – Tom Huddlestone and Jermaine Jenas – due to mass international call-ups, Tottenham appeared ill-prepared for a return to league action after a fortnight's break.
Tired Spurs hope Peter Crouch can be Real thing in Champions League 2011
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The United States is, in many ways, psychologically ill-prepared for the end of American hegemony.
Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011
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The British, determined to limit ground operations to the Mediterranean, overwhelmed an ill-prepared, poorly supported U.S. delegation.
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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Foreign and local military forces alike are ill-prepared for riot control.
Inside the Massacre at Afghan Compound Dion Nissenbaum 2011
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By design, Pell Grants funnel money to institutions of “higher education” to pay the tuition and other institutional expenses of students who are so ill-prepared for learning at these institutions that the odds of their ever graduating are quite low.
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