standard issuen.adj.
/ˌstandəd ˈɪʃ(j)uː/, /ˌstandəd ˈɪsjuː/, U.S. /ˌstændərd ˈɪʃ(j)u/ A. n.
1. The basic equipment, clothing, etc., which is supplied as standard to individuals in a particular group or performing a particular role, typically by a military or government body.
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1888 Med. Bull. (Philadelphia) July 216/2 We are apt to forget the character of the diet to which these men [sc. soldiers] were so long confined... There was fat, pork, sugar and coffee. These four articles were the standard issue.
1984 PC 15 May 157/1 These workstations will not be executives' and managers' tools only; they will be standard issue for everyone in the company.
2011 M. Rossiter We fought at Arnhem iii. 39 The Sten gun..was developed at the end of 1940 by the Royal Ordnance factory at Enfield and became the standard issue for paratroopers.
2. In extended use: a thing considered to be typical or expected; something mundane or run of the mill.
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1954 European June 28 Reprinted in the press at his [sc. Harry Dexter White's] death, as the ‘credo of an American’, it became standard issue in the quiver of liberalism.
1986 P. Conroy Prince of Tides v. 94 A portion of guilt is standard issue for southern boys.
2008 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 22 Mar. (Business section) Mobile phones have now become absolutely part of the standard issue for everyone.
B. adj. (in attributive use). Usually with hyphen.
1. Designating equipment, clothing, etc., supplied as standard to individuals in a particular group or performing a particular role, typically by a military or government body.
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1908 H. W. Daly Man. Pack Transportation vii. 163 A mixture of an olive drab shade as required by standard issue blanket.
1963 Guardian 26 Feb. 11/6 The Luger was the standard issue weapon to the German Army during and before the last war.
2014 Sun (Nexis) 21 Sept. 22 More new convicts than ever are unable to fit into prisoners' standard-issue kit.
2. In extended use: typical, mundane, run of the mill.
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1966 N.Y. Times 13 June (Television listings section) 79/5 Standard issue World War II story.
1975 M. Vonnegut Eden Express i. 26 Now Virgil McKenzie is not your standard-issue real estate agent but we had no idea about that.
2015 Toronto Star (Nexis) 20 Mar. (Entertainment section) e6 This is..standard-issue spy stuff, the kind where plot epiphanies happen on the run, bullets have predictable trajectories and to-die-for Alpha Romeo roadsters are found for the taking.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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