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What does "make ready" mean in this context?

English Language & Usage Asked on June 4, 2021

I was filling out a form to request apartment maintenance, and it let me select a priority from a list of options. The choices shown in the drop-down list were emergency, low, make ready, and normal. The form also included this note:

Priority: make ready

What does "make ready" mean in this context?

2 Answers

According to Dictionary.com, the phrase "make-ready" can mean

make-ready (n) the act or process of making something ready for use.

Even more specifically, according to a website devoted to apartment maintenance, "make-ready maintenance" means the work necessary to make a (currently unoccupied) unit ready for occupancy.

This does not seem like a true prioritization of a task; I suspect make-ready maintenance tasks can be higher or lower priority depending on the circumstances. It seems like the form you are referring to simply uses the "priority" field to categorize make-ready maintenance tasks. Perhaps they fall outside of the usual hierarchy of priorities.

Correct answer by Benjamin Kuykendall on June 4, 2021

I imagine that there is a scale of urgency, best illustrated by example:

The apartment is occupied. The sewage system blocks: emergency; immediate attention is needed.

Apartment occupied. There is a dripping tap, or some paintwork needs doing: low; attention is needed soon but the apartment remains habitable.

Make ready: the apartment is about to be occupied, so switch on the electricity and water, check sewage is OK, check that windows and doors are working properly.

Normal: the apartment is unoccupied and unchecked since the last inspection.

Answered by Anton on June 4, 2021

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