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ready-made | American Dictionary

ready-made
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˈred·i ˈmeɪd/
in finished form, or available to use immediately:
I didn’t sew the curtains – they came ready-made.

ready-made | Business English

ready-made
adjective[ usually before noun ]
uk /ˌrediˈmeɪd/us
bought in a finished form and available to use or eat immediately:
ready-made food/mealsTheir range of quality ready-made meals has improved substantially.
already available and not needing to be invented or developed:
Nobody has a ready-made solution to deal with all your staffing problems.
PRODUCTION
produced in large quantities in standard sizes and types rather than made to fit a particular customer:
the ready-made clothing industry

ready-made

adverb
to buy/purchase something ready-made

Examples of ready-made

ready-made
Phillips agreed with this, believing that the idea of ready-made virtues is incoherent.
Gradually, this became standard practice, and the tobaccomen expanded their businesses and began to produce and sell ready-made cigarettes on a regular basis.
Thus, in this target article, they will find a ready-made and very interesting new problem.
While the choice is inevitable, the ' ready-made ' garment he has selected is somewhat out of fashion.
From a constructive view of knowledge development, concepts cannot simply be transmitted ready-made.
Also, an exploring robot will be more easily put to work than one that needs to be supplied with a ready-made floor plan.
This theoretical perspective thus provides a ready-made structure for the integration of a biological perspective into resilience.
An alternative term, 'quotation' or 'genre-quotation', alludes rather to the composer's placement of 'ready-made' models in the mouths of characters.
As the century progressed, stonemasons increasingly sold their products through catalogues and imported ready-made monuments to feed mass demand.
The inclusion of ready-made modules for basic tasks eliminates the need to keep re-inventing them, and provides a good starting point for any new system.
This is another reason why design space explorers are mixed-initiative systems, not viewers of ready-made designs for a human.
To a very great extent socrealizm seemed to offer a ready-made style and world view to accommodate the events and the meaning of the war.
He's right in thinking that language is not just an inputoutput system for communicating ready-made thoughts, and in rejecting the "no thought without language" position.
Concepts are not passed on, ready-made, through language.
These preparations are medications ready-made for consumption that cannot be modified, similar to present-day medicines.
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