readymade

Adjective

ready-made (comparative more ready-made, superlative most ready-made)

1. Preexisting or made previously and suitable for use without further preparation or modification; comparable with regard to the amount of preparation required.
   • They used to take a big horse-blanket and sit on the grass a little to the left of the lower end, where there is a dip in the ground, and where the occupied graves stop short and the ready-made ones are not ready. Each well-regulated Indian Cemetery keeps half a dozen graves permanently open for...1889, Rudyard Kipling, “At the Pit's Mouth”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 52
2. (not comparable) Made in advance to a standard specification.
   • During the 1830s and 1840s, ready-made standardized shoes and clothing increasingly challenged the custom-made products of small handicraft workshops.1993, Ronald Aminzade, Ballots and Barricades: Class Formation and Republican Politics in France, 1830-1871, page 68

   Synonyms:

   off-the-peg, reach-me-down

3. Made or prepared in advance and used regularly or habitually without original thought.
   • […]including both the most everyday and popular, the most ready-made or found objects, the most quotidian of performances.2008, Elizabeth A. Grosz, Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth, page 4, footnote

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