made-to-order [
'medtʊ'ɔrdɚ]
a. 定做的
[化] 特制; 定制; 按定户要求制作
made-to-order[ adj ]- built for a particular individual
<adj.all>
- (of clothing) custom-made
<adj.all>
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.
[WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
2. made or tailored to fit a specific person; -- of clothing.
Contrasted with {off-the-rack}, {ready-to-wear}.
Syn: custom-made, custom-tailored.
[PJC]
- Bush's desk was one of four made-to-order about 1920 for the owners of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Co. It was placed in the company's office in Ohio.
- "It's a made-to-order issue for politicians whose stock-in-trade is economic populism," says James Reichley, a political scientist at the Brookings Institution.