Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Available from merchandise in stock; not custom-made.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Made in large quantities and intended to be used without modifications; -- similar to
off-the-rack , but not restricted to clothing. Opposite ofcustom-made ,made-to-order , orone-of-a-kind .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective idiomatic As
purchased or ascommonly available , withoutmodification orcustomization .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (especially of clothing) made in standard sizes and available from merchandise in stock
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Examples
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Dubbing the trend "Generation C" for Content, Trendwatching also noted that "customer-made" goods require much more than off-the-shelf customization.
Curtis Arnold: Rewards Cards That Do It Your Way Curtis Arnold 2011
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Dubbing the trend "Generation C" for Content, Trendwatching also noted that "customer-made" goods require much more than off-the-shelf customization.
Curtis Arnold: Rewards Cards That Do It Your Way Curtis Arnold 2011
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Other rifles are prettier, but I'm utilitarian and I think this will exceed my expectations for an off-the-shelf gun.
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Dubbing the trend "Generation C" for Content, Trendwatching also noted that "customer-made" goods require much more than off-the-shelf customization.
Curtis Arnold: Rewards Cards That Do It Your Way Curtis Arnold 2011
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Other rifles are prettier, but I'm utilitarian and I think this will exceed my expectations for an off-the-shelf gun.
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NSXA would select the technology it needs and, if it is not already available off-the-shelf, contract through proper government bidding processes to the appropriate companies to assemble the tools and infrastructure it needs.
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SRBs - Jupiter uses off-the-shelf SRBs from the shuttle.
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Tyson was asked to give a 5 minute "welcome and hello" and instead gave an off-the-shelf 1 hour talk about how great the museum was.
Who Should Be The Next Administrator of NASA? - NASA Watch 2009
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If feature creep and payload growth make it questionable if your existing off-the-shelf design will work, redesign the architecture, not the LV so that it will work (be willing to move from 1. 5-launch to 2-launch in order to restrict payload growth in any one launch);
Griffin - No Human Space Flight Review Needed - NASA Watch 2009
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Dubbing the trend "Generation C" for Content, Trendwatching also noted that "customer-made" goods require much more than off-the-shelf customization.
Curtis Arnold: Rewards Cards That Do It Your Way Curtis Arnold 2011
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