ready-meal

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Noun[edit]

ready-meal (plural ready-meals)

  1. Alternative form of ready meal
    • 2007, Christopher Brookmyre, Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, →ISBN, page 212:
      This would not, he assured us, compromise the electromagnetic insulation, as the glass would be embedded with a mesh screen similar to the ones that prevent microwave ovens from cooking the person on the outside while he stares impatiently at his half-defrosted ready-meal.
    • 2008, Margaret Linehan, Consumer Behaviour: Irish Patterns and Perspectives, →ISBN:
      Although the new chllled ready-meals should have changed perception, consumers were still in a 'frozen ready-meal' state of mind which perceives ready-meals as poor in taste and quality.
    • 2012, Allie Spencer, Tug of Love, →ISBN:
      We chatted about my job, his job and how, after he'd done his telly bit, it was impossible for him to buy a supermarket ready-meal without the checkout lady giving him grief about overpackaging.