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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
machine-made
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
machine-made candles
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In the old days, before machine-made doors and draught-excluders, maybe, but not these days.
▪ On machine-made paper the watermark is embossed into the sheet whilst it is still wet.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
machine-made

machine-made \machine-made\ adj. made by a machine. Contrasted with handmade.

WordNet
machine-made

adj. made by machine [ant: handmade]

Usage examples of "machine-made".

Every technological innovation was bitterly resisted by Luddite printers and publishers: stereotyping, the iron press, the application of steam power, mechanical typecasting and typesetting, new methods of reproducing illustrations, cloth bindings, machine-made paper, ready-bound books, paperbacks, book clubs, and book tokens.

I gathered that girls such as Elizabeth Cardwell, used to buying machine-made, presewn garments on Earth, were not as skilled as they might be in certain of the homely crafts which used to be associated with homemaking, crafts which might, upon occasion, it seemed, come in handy.

The average family owned nothing machine-made except for a kitchen knife.

The oak furniture was not the state's but my own, and I had hidden the tile floor with a Sarouk prayer rug that was machine-made but bright.

Alexander Wood shot his first patient with a subcutaneous injection from a hypodermic syringe and Samuel Colt, that American legend of firearms design, revolutionized British small-arms manufacture with his London factory for machine-made revolvers.