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made-to-order
[ meyd-too-awr-der, -tuh- ]
adjective
- made in accordance with an individual's specifications or requirements: Compare ready-to-wear.
a made-to-order suit.
- perfectly suited.
Word History and Origins
Origin of made-to-order1
Idioms and Phrases
Also, built to order . Very suitable, as in Her new assignment was built to order for her . In its literal use, this idiom refers to an item fashioned according to particular instructions. [Mid-1900s]Example Sentences
Therefore, he started hiring vendors like a “papusa lady” and a pizza guy to come and cook up made-to-order snacks.
[T]he way the Republicans are looking at it is that they think that Hispanic immigrants are made-to-order conservatives.
Others were derided by their contemporaries, as we deride the made-to-order coat of arms of some nineteenth century upstart.
This is a most interesting example of a made-to-order witch pamphlet.
But of course the truth about our made-to-order mob could not be kept very long.
Therefore the company does not include a horse in the preliminary equipment of a "made-to-order" farm.
They really fitted him,—it was his first made-to-order suit,—and he seemed slimmer and better modelled.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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