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What does ill-prepared mean?

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Adjective
  1. Not well prepared. Not ready, or not in condition to do a task.
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The rail companies have had to cope with radical changes in the economy, for which they were ill-prepared.
Japan's parliament, or Diet, has more septuagenarians and octogenarians than almost any other, and they are ill-prepared for radical changes.
In more than one case, it was noted that police services are mainly anglophone and, therefore, ill-prepared to offer services in French.
In many cases, management is at best ill-prepared for the role it has been assigned and is, at worst, paternalistic.
Though the post was of some importance locally, it was hardly worth an ill-prepared battle.
The ill-prepared often overcompensate for these variations with too much clothing or through overexertion.

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