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ready-made

adjective
 
 
/ˌred.iˈmeɪd/

Definition

bought or found in a finished form and available to use immediately: a ready-made frozen mealfigurative When she married Giles, she acquired a ready-made family - two teenage sons and a daughter.Available and accessiblePresent
(Definition of ready-made adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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