store-bought

[ stawr-bawt, stohr- ]

adjective

, Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S.

1. commercially made rather than homemade.

Word History and Origins

Origin of store-bought¹

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

You can even cheat and use store-bought puff pastry!

From Salon

Ten years later, she made her Food Network debut as the host of “Semi-Homemade Cooking,” where she whipped up recipes using mostly store-bought ingredients.

From Los Angeles Times

If store-bought is your jam, try one of these:

From Seattle Times

But when commercial, store-bought white bread was used, freezing before toasting did not improve the body's blood sugar response.

From Salon

Where many store-bought fermented foods are pasteurized to clear out all living microbes and then reinoculated with two to six specific bacterial species, our research showed that homemade ferments contain dozens of strains.

From Salon