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ready-mixed, a. (and n.) orig. U.S.
[f. ready a. 16.]
Of paints, concrete, and other artificial compound substances, having some or all of the constituents already mixed together. Also ellipt. as n.
1895Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 254/2 Japanese Ready Mixed Paints and Enamels. 1908Sears, Roebuck Catal. 71/1, 85 cents per gallon buys our guaranteed Seroco Ready Mixed House Paint. 1930Engineering 16 May 631/3 The practice of selling ready-mixed concrete was introduced in the United States about ten years ago. 1960Farmer & Stockbreeder 22 Mar. (Suppl.) 10/2 You can make up your own flooring compounds, but probably the simplest way is to buy a tin of ready-mixed material. 1973M. Truman H. S. Truman iii. 72 Mr. Pendergast owned the Ready-Mixed Concrete Company which in the past had been used almost exclusively by contractors paving Jackson County roads. In Judge Truman's 225-mile road-building program, only three-fourths of a mile were paved with Ready-Mixed. 1977J. I. M. Stewart Madonna of Astrolabe iii. 51 To what extent should we be justified in pouring unexpected wealth, as if it were so much ready-mixed concrete, into shoring up a mere sense-of-beauty-occasioning object? |