ready-made

adj.

1. Already made, prepared, or available: ready-made clothes.
2. Handy or expedient, especially because of familiarity, frequent use, or preplanning: a raft of ready-made excuses.

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adj

Definition: ready-to-wear
Antonyms: bespoke, tailor-made

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Term applied from 1915 to a commonplace prefabricated object isolated from its functional context and elevated to the status of art by the mere act of an artist's selection. Unlike most types of OBJET TROUV?, of which it can be considered a sub-category, it is generally a product of modern mass production, and it tends to be presented on its own without mediation. In its strictest sense it is applied exclusively to works produced by MARCEL DUCHAMP, who borrowed the term from the clothing industry while living in New York, and especially to works dating from 1913 to 1921. Duchamp envisaged the ready-made as the product of an aesthetically provocative act, one that denied the importance of taste and which questioned the meaning of art itself. According to Duchamp, the artist's choice of a ready-made should be governed not by the beauty of the object but by his indifference towards it; to these ends it could be selected by chance methods, for example by a predetermined weight or at a predetermined time.

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - færdiglavet, færdig-
n. - præfabrikeret produkt

Nederlands (Dutch)
kant-en-klaar

Français (French)
adj. - de confection, prêt-à-porter, tout fait
n. - (Art) objet trouvé, vêtements de confection

Deutsch (German)
adj. - vorgefertigt, Konfektions...
n. - Konfektions...

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - έτοιμος, προκατασκευασμένος, όχι επί παραγγελία

Italiano (Italian)
confezionato

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - confeccionado

Русский (Russian)
готовый к употреблению

Español (Spanish)
adj. - confeccionado, hecho, de medida
n. - algo (generalmente ropa) hecho a la medida

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - konfektionssydd

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
现成的, 平凡的, 做好的, 现成物品

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 現成的, 平凡的, 做好的
n. - 現成物品

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 기성의, 빌어 온
n. - 기성품

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 既製の, 受け売りの, 出来合の

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) جاهز‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮מוכן, מוכן לפי תקן מראש, לא לפי מדידה, לא בהזמנה (בגד), לא מקורי, סטנדרטי‬
n. - ‮בגדים מוכנים‬

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