ready-made

[ red-ee-meyd ]

adjective

1. made in advance for sale to any purchaser, rather than to order:

   a ready-made coat.

2. made for immediate use.
3. unoriginal; conventional.

noun

1. readymade.
2. something that is ready-made, as a garment or a piece of furniture or equipment.

ready-made

adjective

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

noun

1. a ready-made article, esp a garment

Word History and Origins

Origin of ready-made¹

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50

Example Sentences

And while race and class aren’t explicitly addressed, it’s impossible not to view our protagonist’s actions through a ready-made privilege that Eastwood doesn’t disabuse us of pondering.

From Los Angeles Times

You also get feedback effects, where people start paying attention to things more because they have a ready-made frame they can insert an anecdote into.

From Salon

That would mean someone “in the right wing media ecosystem that would have a ready-made audience for them.”

From Salon

No sooner was “The Babadook” becoming a horror classic in its own right that it ballooned into a ready-made meme machine that, by the summer of 2017, found traction within the LGBTQ+ community.

From Los Angeles Times

Huston’s ready-made villainy won’t suffer either, although I’m pretty sure a shot of him closing his eyes — ostensibly in monstrous reverie — is really just an attempt to remember better gigs.

From Los Angeles Times