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Ready-made

noun

A manufactured artifact (as a garment or piece of furniture) that is made in advance and available for purchase.

adjective

Made for purchase and immediate use.

Repeated regularly without thought or originality. Synonym: cliched.

Commercially produced; not homemade.

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"Ready-made" Quotes from Famous Books

... collective methods for household and family methods. It has gone far with us now. Instead of the woman drawing water from a well, the pipes and taps of the water company. Instead of the home-made rushlight, the electric lamp. Instead of home-spun, ready-made clothes. Instead of home-brewed, the brewer's cask. Instead of home-baked, first the little baker and then, clean and punctual, the International Bread and Cake Stores. Instead of the child learning ...

— The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

... occupied a very short time, and Captain Asher walked quickly to meet his visitor. As he stepped out of the garden-gate he was disappointed again. The young man's trousers were turned up above his shoes. The weather was not wet, there was no mud, and if Dick Lancaster's son had not bought a pair of ready-made trousers that were too long for him, why should he turn them up ...

— The Captain's Toll-Gate • Frank R. Stockton

... horizontally outward from the trunk. Over each a tazo is flung, one end left loose, the other remaining in the hand of him who pitched it. Before flinging them the rope has been passed through the iron ring with which all lariats are provided, thus furnishing a ready-made running noose. ...

— The Lone Ranche • Captain Mayne Reid

... in "the two-pair back;" and that is about all that needs to be said or speculated in such a case. As a matter of fact, the demeanor of Moore among the socially great seems to have been that of a man who respected his company, without failing to respect himself also—any ill-natured caviling or ready-made imputations ...

— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al

... all right, Mrs. Falkner," he answered. "But then I have a special faculty for hitting it off with unpopular persons—possibly a kind of fellow-feeling. Besides, accepting ready-made judgments concerning other people does not commend itself to my mind on any score of logic or sound sense. It is just a trifle less insane than taking up other ...

— The Sign of the Spider • Bertram Mitford

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