ready-made

Speech parts

1. ready-made - Noun

2. ready-made - Adjective

3. ready-made - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Made already, or beforehand, in anticipation of need; not made to order; as, ready-made clothing; ready-made jokes.

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Examples

In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own. Alexis de Tocqueville

The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists. Joan Robinson

Every social need, such as the need for friendship, must be a party to its own satisfaction: I cannot passively find my friend as a ready-made friend; a ready-made human being he may be, but his friendship for me I must help to create by my own active resolve. William Ernest Hocking

We are sacrificing ourselves for our ready-made goods; we are consumers and live in such a way that the means may consume the end. Karl Kraus

Those bosoms can be sold cheapest which are stolen ready-made. German Proverb

Bald-headed men are ready-made buddhist priests. Chinese Proverb

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