Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Already made, prepared, or available: ready-made clothes.
- adj. Handy or expedient, especially because of familiarity, frequent use, or preplanning: a raft of ready-made excuses.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Previously made and now ready for use; furnished or obtained in a formed state; specifically, in trade, made ready for chance sale, and not made to order for a particular person: as. ready-made clothing; ready-made opinions or excuses.
- Pertaining to articles prepared beforehand: as, the ready-made department of a tailor's or shoemaker's business.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Made already, or beforehand, in anticipation of need; not made to order
WordNet 3.0
- n. a manufactured artifact (as a garment or piece of furniture) that is made in advance and available for purchase
- adj. repeated regularly without thought or originality
- adj. commercially produced; not homemade
- adj. made for purchase and immediate use
Examples
“Note: The phrase "ready-made collaborators," referenced in the article's title, is attributed to Nadia Sirota.”
The Huffington Post: Daniel J. Kushner: Beautiful Mechanical: yMusic, The Ready-Made Collaborators
““You cannot get the low Irish to wash their faces, even were you to lay before them ewers of crystal water and scented soap; you cannot get them to dress decently, although you supply them with ready-made clothes.””
“It's also clear that in an information-glutted age, the need to stand out is greater and big names come with ready-made recognition factor – so what might once have been a gimmick now seems like good marketing sense.”
The Guardian: Slick Jagger? Joy Orbison? Why silly names hide credible music
“The other simple explanation is that Fox News can afford to play hardball because it has a ready-made replacement on hand: former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs, a host with a similar appeal to Beck but with none of the downsides.”
The Guardian: Glenn Beck's future at Fox News under threat | Richard Adams
“By accident or design, Palladio's aesthetic infiltrated English architecture and, in particular, the pattern books that offered ready-made templates for so many home builders in the American colonies.”
The Washington Post: Andrea Palladio's influential architecture at National Building Museum
“So when the balloon goes up in 2014 and Scotland becomes independent we will have a ready-made retreat.”
The Guardian: If we buy Taransay, we can save the Union | Kevin McKenna
“In her bedroom Saxon completed her dressing, for an instant stepping upon a chair so as to glimpse critically in the small wall-mirror the hang of her ready-made linen skirt.”
“Â You get an even coat, and since most of my bowls have huge feet, I have a ready-made handle.”
“The Camden, N.J., company knew when it entered Russia in September 2007 that it would be challenging to persuade a country of homemade soup eaters to adopt ready-made soups.”
The Wall Street Journal: M'mm, M'mm Good—Nyet: Campbell Soup to Exit Russia
“Whether you are purchasing a ready-made frame or are creating your own custom picture frames, the choice of picture frame moulding material is important.”
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