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ready-to-eat

ready-to-eat

8 2.8
Food prepared in advance that you can eat without cooking
  • adjective
  • /ˈrɛdi tə it/
translation icon : listo para comer
  • For a quick lunch, I grabbed a ready-to-eat salad from the fridge.
  • ready-to-eat foods
  • ready-to-eat meal
  • ready-to-eat products

We will look at the ready to eat cereal market.

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Examples

  • Factor makes the best tasting, ready to eat meals that I've ever had.

  • We've got our fresh baguette on the windowsill ready to eat for breakfast.

  • Factor is delicious, ready to eat meals and they make eating better very easy every single day.

  • Sweet stress free this summer with factors delicious ready to eat meals.

  • It will be delivered to your door, ready to eat.

    The Swinging Cheerleaders (1974)

  • Splendid Spoon sends delicious plant based, ready to eat meals and snacks right to your door.

  • Add to your diet: Bread is versatile, portable, and ready to eat right out of the wrapper.

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  • Hurricane Sandy victims have already seen boots on the ground delivering ready-to-eat meals and helping in other ways.

    Blog text (3)

  • Avoid that bag of chips or candy bar with lunch to go, effortless meals like grain bowls and salad toppers that are ready to eat when you're on the go.

  • They've got fresh produce, high quality meat and seafood, healthy snacks, smoothies, sweets, ready to eat meals, kids snacks, vitamins, supplements, and so much more.

Synonyms

prepared
vsready-to-eat
103 1.3

Ready to use or do something when needed

is specific to food made earlier so it can be eaten without cooking
done
vsready-to-eat
25 1.0

Cooked all the way through and ready to eat

is about items prepared earlier and able to be eaten without extra cooking
ready-made
vsready-to-eat
3 3.4

Sold in standard sizes so it can be used right away

applies more to goods than to food, focusing on standard production
readymade
vsready-to-eat
1 4.2

Made before you buy and ready to use

is about food prepared earlier to be eaten without more cooking
ready-cooked
vsready-to-eat
2.2

Made earlier so you can eat it without more work in the kitchen

is focused on food being already fit to eat without more cooking
premade
vsready-to-eat
3.4

A ready item you can eat or use immediately

focuses on food being prepared earlier for direct eating

How Ready

ready-to-eat
8 2.8
prepared
103 1.3
cooked
1 1.0
raw
353 1.0

Surface Forms

ready-to-eat positive

Morphology

ready-to-eat = ready + eat (transparent) = ready + to + eat

The phrase combines 'ready' and 'eat' (linked by 'to') to mean 'prepared for eating', which is directly inferable from the components.

Etymology

Ready-to-eat comes from the simple English parts ready ('prepared') and eat ('to eat'). So, ready-to-eat food is made in advance and can be eaten right away without cooking.