1. built-in - Noun
2. built-in - Adjective
3. built-in - Adjective Satellite
existing as an essential constituent or characteristic
Source: WordNetbuilt in
The acceptance of vertical differentiation with the built-in principle of self-determination must apply on as many levels as possible. Pieter Willem Botha
By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth. Barry Commoner
Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism -- which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place. Hunter S. Thompson
The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles. Harrison Birtwistle
Science has a huge advantage over "other ways of knowing”: built-in methods of self-correction. Jerry Coyne
History as inspiration and ideology has a built-in tendency to become self-justifying myth. Nothing is a more dangerous blindfold than this, as the history of modern nations and nationalisms demonstrates. Eric Hobsbawm