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read·y-made or read·y·made (rd-md)

adj.

1. Already made, prepared, or available: ready-made clothes.

2. Handy or expedient, especially because of familiarity, frequent use, or preplanning: a raft of ready-made excuses.

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ready-made

adj

1. made for purchase and immediate use by any customer a ready-made jacket

2. extremely convenient or ideally suited a ready-made solution

3. unoriginal or conventional ready-made phrases

n

a ready-made article, esp a garment

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	ready-made - a manufactured artifact (as a garment or piece of furniture) that is made in advance and available for purchase; "their apartment was furnished with ready-mades" artefact, artifact - a man-made object taken as a whole custom-built, custom-made - an item made to the customer's specifications
Adj.	1.	ready-made - made for purchase and immediate use custom, custom-made - made according to the specifications of an individual
	2.	ready-made - repeated regularly without thought or originality; "ready-made phrases" cliched unoriginal - not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual; "the manuscript contained unoriginal emendations"; "his life had been unoriginal, conforming completely to the given pattern"- Gwethalyn Graham
	3.	ready-made - commercially produced; not homemade; "ready-made clothes" factory-made - produced in quantity at a factory

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ready-made

adjective ready-to-wear, off-the-peg, off-the-rack (U.S.) local ready-made clothes

Translations

ready-made [ˈredɪˈmeɪd] ADJ [clothes, curtains] → confeccionado, ya hecho; [meal, sauce] → precocinado, preparado; [excuses, ideas] → preparado
we can't expect to find a ready-made solution for our problems → no podemos esperar que la solución a nuestros problemas nos llegue como caída del cielo
a ready-made basis for negotiations → una base para las negociaciones muy oportuna
you can buy your greenhouse ready-made → puede comprar un invernadero ya prefabricado

ready-made [ˌrɛdɪˈmeɪd] adj (clothes) → confezionato/a; (excuses, solution) → bell'e pronto/a; (ideas) → banale