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off-the-shelf | Business English

off-the-shelf
adjective[ before noun ]
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used to describe a product that is available immediately and does not need to be specially made to suit a particular purpose:
You can purchase off-the-shelf software or have it customized to suit your needs.

off the shelf

adverb
If you have complex needs, we don't recommend that you buy software off the shelf.

Examples of off the shelf

off the shelf
Honouring our commitment to 'off-the-shelf ' proof theory, we now present the result, namely cut elimination, that provides the basis for the rest of the article.
The inclusion of reproducible activity sheets and step-by-step guides to activities provide busy teachers an off-the-shelf resource for lessons.
For this, off-the-shelf algorithms included in the robot's programming libraries are used.
This requires optical quality a little better than the human eye but much less precise than an ordinary off-the-shelf amateur telescope.
Major results of these efforts are that speech recognisers and synthesisers can now be bought as off-the-shelf software.
However, off-the-shelf placement tests rarely match the syllabus of a particular conversation school.
It was not intended to limit the technology to off-the-shelf parts, however it provided a solid, efficient base for the experiments.
It went on to protest that most contemporary architecture disguised its reliance on off-the-shelf elements.
If phonetics-tospeech is chosen, an off-the-shelf speech synthesis program may be used and only an application-specific lexicon for grapheme-to-phoneme conversion has to be made.
Our use of technology has progressed from off-the-shelf software to the creation of customised interfaces optimised for work across media.
And it is extremely important that plan sponsors draft their own investment policy statements, rather than rely on off-the-shelf models.
In fact, the cut elimination procedures we consider are 'off-the-shelf ', while the explicit substitution calculi are well-established in their own right.
Establishing semantic links between the vocabularies using off-the-shelf ontology mapping tools.
Clusters built from cheap off-the-shelf components represent an affordable solution for a large variety of applications that demand huge amounts of resources.
The notions of function, set and algorithm were available "off-the-shelf" from mathematics and logic for use in computer science.
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