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preassembled

preassembled

3.7
Put together before you buy or use it
  • adjective
  • /priːəˈsɛmbləd/
translation icon : preensamblado
  • The furniture store offers many preassembled items to make setting up your new home easier.

Examples

  • Provide students with preassembled equations for the student to add, subtract, multiply, or divide (K-Grade 3 OA CCSS; Grade 2 NBT CCSS).

    Academic text (2013)

  • For example, give the student a picture of a cat and the preassembled letters with the choices of c or n on individual letter cubes, or a picture of a dish with preassembled cubes and the letter choices s, t, and h.

    Academic text (2013)

  • Although this technology is not yet commercially proven, the company has a customer in the Tennessee Valley Authority, which expects to have its first unit online in 2021 (see "A Preassembled Nuclear Reactor").

    Blog text (29)

  • We bought a preassembled bicycle so we could ride it right out of the box.

  • These preassembled kits are perfect for beginners who want to start building without complex instructions.

Synonyms

prefab
vspreassembled
4 5.1

Made in separate parts so people can move them and put them together on site

is put together before sale or delivery rather than shipped in parts
prefabricated
vspreassembled
  • Specialized
2 4.3

Made earlier in parts so it can be quickly put together or used

is assembled beforehand and sold complete rather than in parts
readymade
vspreassembled
1 4.2

Made before you buy and ready to use

focuses on being put together before sale or delivery rather than simple availability
premade
vspreassembled
3.4

A ready item you can eat or use immediately

is assembled before sale or delivery rather than only prepared

How Assembled

preassembled
3.7
unassembled
1 3.8

Surface Forms

preassembled positive

Morphology

preassembled = preassemble (transparent) = pre + assemble + ed

This is a regular participial/adjectival use of the verb 'preassemble' meaning assembled beforehand.

Etymology

Preassembled starts with pre- meaning 'before' and the rest is assemble, which means 'to put together'. So a preassembled item is something that has been put together 'before' you buy or use it, ready to use.