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• s  (especially of clothing) made in standard sizes and available from merchandise in stock

• The non-enterprise system has bred an underground elite: the hard-to-find specialists who can make brand-new shoes wearable, alter off-the-peg suits and dresses so that they have a .
• In March they will plunge into off-the-peg.
• The first off-the-peg tux appeared around World War I, and tails were dusted off mostly for coronations.

• off-the-rack
• off-the-shelf
• ready-to-wear

News & Articles

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• On Iran, Obama's bigger challenge is with his allies
  By Mark Leonard The things that probably keep Barack Obama up at night — terrorist networks, covert nuclear programs and chemical weapons — can often be countered with off-the-peg reasoning: drones, sanctions, inspections, or even the threat of intervention. Much more difficult is working out how to stop allies from destroying what he hopes will be the signature achievement of his second term: a ...
  Oct. 15, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News