off-the-shelf
adjective
: available as a stock item : not specially designed or custom-made
off-the-shelf software
Examples of off-the-shelf in a Sentence
she chose to have her computer designed to her specifications rather than buying an off-the-shelf machine
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Banks monetise deposit tokens by selling compliance certainty and embedding programmable workflows that off-the-shelf stablecoins still lack.
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Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
Driving the contract renegotiations are a series of executive orders from President Donald Trump, who has moved to consolidate purchasing in the GSA, encourage the use of more off-the-shelf products and overhaul federal procurement regulations.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 20 May 2025
The Lincoln Lab researchers achieved this high-data-rate optical link with a commercial off-the-shelf optical transceiver.
—IEEE Spectrum, 12 May 2025
Stack Unit Economics Today's robotics startups leverage off-the-shelf components, cloud computing and AI to bring solutions to market in months instead of years.
—Aditya Ranjan, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
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Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
Driving the contract renegotiations are a series of executive orders from President Donald Trump, who has moved to consolidate purchasing in the GSA, encourage the use of more off-the-shelf products and overhaul federal procurement regulations.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 20 May 2025
The Lincoln Lab researchers achieved this high-data-rate optical link with a commercial off-the-shelf optical transceiver.
—IEEE Spectrum, 12 May 2025
Stack Unit Economics Today's robotics startups leverage off-the-shelf components, cloud computing and AI to bring solutions to market in months instead of years.
—Aditya Ranjan, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for off-the-shelf
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“Off-the-shelf.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/off-the-shelf. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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