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ready-to-wear definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: (especially of clothing) made in standard sizes and available from merchandise in stock; "a ready-made jacket"; "ready-to-wear clothes" [syn: off-the-rack, off-the-shelf, off-the-peg, ready-to-wear] n
1: ready-made clothing; "she couldn't find anything in ready- to-wear that she liked"

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1895 1. of clothing ready-made 2. dealing in ready-made clothes <ready-to-wear stores> • ready-to-wear noun

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Ready-to-wear clothes are made in standard sizes so that they fit most people, rather than being made specially for a particular person. In 1978 he launched his first major ready-to-wear collection for the Austin Reed stores. = off-the-peg ADJ: ADJ n

Moby Thesaurus

assembled, bespoke, built, cast, constructed, crafted, created, custom, custom-built, custom-made, cut-and-dried, cut-and-dry, extracted, fabricated, fashioned, forged, formed, gathered, grown, handcrafted, handmade, harvested, homemade, homespun, machine-made, machined, made, made to order, man-made, manufactured, milled, mined, molded, prefab, prefabricated, processed, put together, raised, ready-built, ready-dressed, ready-for-wear, ready-formed, ready-made, ready-mixed, ready-prepared, refined, sartorial, shaped, smelted, store-bought, tailored, vestmental, well-built, well-constructed, well-made