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Definition of Off-the-rack
1. Adjective. (especially of clothing) made in standard sizes and available from merchandise in stock. "Ready-to-wear clothes"
Definition of Off-the-rack
1. Adjective. (context: of clothing) ready-made in a range of standard sizes ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Off-the-rack
Literary usage of Off-the-rack
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Microscopical Praxis: Or, Simple Methods of Ascertaining the Properties of by Alfred Cheatham Stokes (1894)
"... which have such an exceedingly long working distance that occasionally the
body must be raised so high above the stage that it will run off the rack ..."
2. Speeches on Questions of Public Policy by Richard Cobden, John Bright, James Edwin Thorold Rogers (1878)
"... to see if the patient will live a little longer, or to see whether it should
be taken off the rack. Then the Standard newspaper tells us, ..."
3. A Consideration of the State of Ireland in the Nineteenth Century by Godfrey Locker Lampson, Godfrey Tennyson Lampson Locker-Lampson (1907)
"Then the Standard newspaper tells us, that even if the patient is taken off the
rack, it shall be put on again as soon as it will bear it. ..."
4. The Parish: Its Powers and Obligations at Law, as Regards the Welfare of by Joshua Toulmin Smith (1857)
"Thus : —the Parish of Bigham may be assessed, among its own inhabitants, with
perfect equality, on the basis of 25 per cent. off the rack-rental. ..."
5. The Horticultural Register by Sir Joseph Paxton, Joseph Harrison (1833)
"... next take off your hand-glass, and, having two stick!!, place one under each
end of the boards that have the plants, and gently take them off the rack ..."
6. The Stylistic Influence of the Second Sophistic on the Panegyrical Sermons by Thomas Edward Ameringer (1921)
"And not even at this point did these blood-thirsty beasts halt in their rage,
but taking the bodies off the rack they stretched them upon gridirons over ..."
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