ready-made: Meaning and Definition of

read•y-made

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.

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

read•y•made

1. an everyday manufactured object, as a bottle rack, a snow shovel, a urinal, or a comb, that may by the creative act of selection and designation by an artist attain status as a work of art: associated almost exclusively with the aesthetic activities of Marcel Duchamp during the period 1915 to 1917.