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Ready-made   /rˈɛdi-meɪd/   Listen
Ready-made

noun
1.
A manufactured artifact (as a garment or piece of furniture) that is made in advance and available for purchase.
adjective
1.
Made for purchase and immediate use.
2.
Repeated regularly without thought or originality.  Synonym: cliched.
3.
Commercially produced; not homemade.





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"Ready-made" Quotes from Famous Books



... nature offer man the beautiful and sublime. But here again he is better served at second-hand. He prefers to have them ready-made in art rather than seek them painfully in nature. This instinct for imitation in art has the advantage of being able to make those points essential that nature has made secondary. While nature suffers violence in the organic ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller
... coat had been bought ready-made, of a Chatham Street Jew, without any question—about 1848. It probably cost four dollars when it was new. It was ripped, it was frayed, it was napless and greasy. I could not resist showing him where it was ripped. ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... demand for ready-made clothing has opened a new field for girls obliged to enter the business world as soon as the law will permit them to leave school. This requires hand finishing on fancy waists and plain and fancy gowns, which are made by the dozens on ...
— The Making of a Trade School • Mary Schenck Woolman
... several provinces produces enormous quantities of sulphur, and the alum of Tolfi is the best in the world. The quartz of Civita Vecchia will give us kaolin for porcelain. The quarries contain building materials, such as marble and pozzolana, which is Roman cement almost ready-made. ...
— The Roman Question • Edmond About
... be the soul of such a movement. "It was my strong conviction that the development of such a social movement should come from the people themselves, not that a ready-made program or plan should be given them, but that they should develop their own." One by one centers are being formed. The Board of Education furnishes the building, the local social center organization pays the immediate expenses which its activities ...
— The New Education - A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (1915) • Scott Nearing


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