ready-made
ready-made
Definition
ready-made (red′ē mād′)
adjective
- made so as to be ready for use or sale at once; not made-to-order ready-made suits
- commonplace; stock ready-made opinions
- conveniently available and suitable no ready-made solutions to difficult social problems
noun
- something that is ready-made
- Art an ordinary, usually mass-produced object displayed as a work of art; also, a composition consisting of more than one such object
ready-made
Synonyms
ready-made
modif.
Prepared
instant, prefabricated, ready-to-wear, off-the-rack, store-bought*, built; see also instant, prepared 2, preserved 2.Trite
unoriginal, commonplace, stock; see common 1, conventional 1, dull 4.
ready-made
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- come: The new idea either comes ready-made or is fairly easy to formulate.
- buy: In UK, it is possible to buy this ready-made.
- get: If you don't have the time to fill your own, you can always get some ready-made.
- have: After all these years trying to develop a compatible alien-human hybrid and to have one ready-made.
- fall: People who can help channel mass movements in the right direction do not fall ready-made from the sky.
- associate: Many animals in of associated ready-made per day than implicitly proposed solution.
Noun used with modifier
- quality: A few years ago, a retailer launched with the concept of quality ready-made foods, in a store similar to Harvey Nicholls.
Modifies a noun
- pastry: Make up shortcrust pastry ( or use ready-made pastry ).
- meal: Don't buy ready-made meals: you're paying for someone else's labor.
- template: Learn our tutorial on creating your own web page or use ready-made web templates.
- curtain: I also needed a great deal of assistance & help to understand why these ready-made curtains would cost me £ 299.
- excuse: Three years ago, the shock of 9/11 provided a ready-made excuse to close down debate.
- machinery: The development of ready-made metal textile machinery, for example, was a result of this system.
Modifying Another Word
- almost: It is a convenient length and has an almost ready-made screenplay in the passages of conversation.
- only: This contains not only ready-made pages and examples, but a very impressive array of shareware readers and editors.
Used with adjective complement
- buy: Story Sacks Query: Does anyone out there know if is possible to buy ready-made Story Sacks, and if so, where from?
- supply: I can offer a range of ' organic oak ' seating supplied ready-made to standard designs or I can make site-specific work.
- appear: But I don't think things have appeared ready-made from nowhere.
- sell: A homogeneous, externally produced culture cannot be sold ready-made to the masses: culture simply does not work like that.
- include: As you can see, the CD includes ready-made Quality Manual, Quality Policy, forms and procedures for you to modify and use.
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