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ready-made Definition

ready-made (redē mād)

adjective

  1. made so as to be ready for use or sale at once; not made-to-order ready-made suits
  2. commonplace; stock ready-made opinions
  3. conveniently available and suitable no ready-made solutions to difficult social problems

noun

  1. something that is ready-made
  2. 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.

  1. Prepared

    instant, prefabricated, ready-to-wear, off-the-rack, store-bought*, built; see also instant, prepared 2, preserved 2.

  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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