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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
prepackaged
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At lunch another truck swung into the parking lot, and we ate burritos and prepackaged sandwiches.
▪ But the average prepackaged news story or documentary is anything but that.
▪ He will not stand on the stage as the prepackaged candidate of a political marketing team.
▪ Instead of trusting that science lives in our front lawns or in our kitchen cabinets, we look for prepackaged science.
▪ It was just another prepackaged step-by-step approach that ignored who those students and that teacher were together.
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Wiktionary
prepackaged
  1. That has been packaged prior to being sold v

  2. (en-past of: prepackage)

WordNet
prepackaged

adj. prepared and wraped beforehand and ready for sale; "prepackaged foods" [syn: prepacked]

Usage examples of "prepackaged".

Finally, it makes no more sense to purchase a standardized or prepackaged food storage program than it does to buy your weekly bag of groceries selected and bagged by a supermarket clerk, without regard to your personal preferences.

After a less than wonderful meal of prepackaged food, Kade had lit the lantern and then wandered off into the trees.

That is, television encourages us to perceive actual events in terms of prepackaged formulas.

Instead they preferred to carry a variety of prepackaged foods, and a complex machine to select and prepare them.

Sterile, prepackaged peekaboo breasts flaunted on a woman who would probably go into hysterics if a square inch of natural torso were ever to show.

Michaela and Eliot sat at the kitchen table, sullenly eyeing a plate of frosty prepackaged strudel.

She loves to run her fingers down the surface of an unopened game, stroke the cellophane skin of a prepackaged baby doll.

The others sell herbs exclusively in prepackaged and capsule form, and only to health food and grocery stores.

Neil listened politely while Ethan -- heating prepackaged meals over a bottle of propane -- began describing the events that had brought him to the holy site.

John walks over to the modern, mirror-walled washroom area, where on the wall above the imitation-marble counter sit a small electric glass teapot and complimentary individual servings of prepackaged tea mix provided by the trackside motel.

When we had been married, he slept like a kitten, ate like a Hun, and made love like a teenager with a tireless inventiveness that relied on our own two able bodies, not prepackaged toys.

Europeans expected me to regularly wash my hands with prepackaged towelettes and to automatically reject all unpasteurized dairy products.

This was a closed injection system that came prepackaged, complete with dose and needle.

He had not forgotten that it was his birthday, in fact he had spent the day debating with himself the advisability of ordering, from an outfit in California, a complete, prepackaged, do-it-yourself dual-band satellite dish, antenna, feed horn, down converter, receiver, and positioner, and was still debating this purchase, trying to determine how long he might be interested in all this hardware, should he decide to buy it for himself for his birthday.

The parcels in which the micro-organisms arrived were egg-like, containing a small amount of prepackaged nutrients.