ready-made
a manufactured artifact (as a garment or piece of furniture) that is made in advance and available for purchase - their apartment was furnished with ready-mades • Ant: custom-made • Hypernyms: artifact, artefact
1. made for purchase and immediate use (Freq. 1) • Ant: custom-made • Similar to: made, off-the-rack, off-the-shelf, off-the-peg, ready-to-wear, prefab, ready-to-eat 2. repeated regularly without thought or originality - ready-made phrases • Syn: cliched • Similar to: unoriginal 3. commercially produced; not homemade - ready-made clothes • Similar to: factory-made
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