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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
made-to-order
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Even better are their made-to-order omelets.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Previously only available on a made-to-order basis, Alpha is well-known for its high quality and reliability.
▪ There is 30 percent off all printed fabrics and 35 percent off made-to-order curtains and blinds.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
made-to-order

made-to-order \made-to-order\ adj.

  1. made specially for a specific purpose; -- of articles of manufacture. Contrasted with mass-produced, standard.

    Syn: custom-made.

  2. made or tailored to fit a specific person; -- of clothing. Contrasted with off-the-rack, ready-to-wear.

    Syn: custom-made, custom-tailored.

Wiktionary
made-to-order

a. Made for a specific individual, but not always to individual specifications.

WordNet
made-to-order

  1. adj. built for a particular individual [syn: custom-built]

  2. of clothing [syn: bespoke, bespoken, tailored, tailor-made]

Usage examples of "made-to-order".

In recent months I had, for the first time, lowered myself to the hackwork of popular fiction writing, churning out made-to-order adventure stories for pulp magazines.

And we have the battles fought with the participants really killed, these made-to-order simulacra blown to bits, instead of just a grade-B movie type business like a bunch of college kids doing Shakespeare.

This is much bigger than the fetish bead market: made-to-order Vision Quests for the financially affluent and spiritually destitute.