read|y-made

read|y-made «REHD ee MAYD», adjective, noun.

–adj.

1. ready for immediate use; made for anybody who will buy; not made to order: »

Department stores sell ready-made clothes.

2. Figurative. having little or no individuality, as if made by mass production, and kept in readiness for any use or occasion: »

ready-made opinions. They were…spies and agents ready-made for either party (Robert Louis Stevenson).

–n.

1. a ready-made object: »

Some maternity shops, in addition to selling ready-mades, will custom-design clothes (Maclean's).

2. an ordinary object, such as a bicycle wheel or a metal rack, mounted and treated as if it were a work of art, especially in Dada: »

Duchamp originally fathered the movement with “ready-mades,” ordinary objects from our environment (Atlantic).