Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Already made, prepared, or available.
- adjective Handy or expedient, especially because of familiarity, frequent use, or preplanning.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Made already, or beforehand, in anticipation of need; not made to order
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Made orprepared inadvance of need. - noun An
everyday object designated asart .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a manufactured artifact (as a garment or piece of furniture) that is made in advance and available for purchase
- adjective repeated regularly without thought or originality
- adjective commercially produced; not homemade
- adjective made for purchase and immediate use
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Examples
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Note: The phrase "ready-made collaborators," referenced in the article's title, is attributed to Nadia Sirota.
Daniel J. Kushner: Beautiful Mechanical: yMusic, The Ready-Made Collaborators Daniel J. Kushner 2011
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Note: The phrase "ready-made collaborators," referenced in the article's title, is attributed to Nadia Sirota.
Daniel J. Kushner: Beautiful Mechanical: yMusic, The Ready-Made Collaborators Daniel J. Kushner 2011
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“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.”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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 You get an even coat, and since most of my bowls have huge feet, I have a ready-made handle.
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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.
CHAPTER XIX 2010
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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.
Slick Jagger? Joy Orbison? Why silly names hide credible music 2011
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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.
Glenn Beck's future at Fox News under threat | Richard Adams 2011
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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.
M'mm, M'mm Good—Nyet: Campbell Soup to Exit Russia Julie Jargon 2011
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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.
Andrea Palladio's influential architecture at National Building Museum Philip Kennicott 2010
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So when the balloon goes up in 2014 and Scotland becomes independent we will have a ready-made retreat.
If we buy Taransay, we can save the Union | Kevin McKenna 2011
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