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Definition of off-the-shelf

off-the-shelf

adjective

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Other terms relating to 'business (related to)':

Definitions include: busy.
Definitions include: acronym for "work from home" or "working from home".
Definitions include: a request.
Definitions include: contraction of "mobile out of office worker".
Definitions include: "business".
Definitions include: fully equipped and ready to go.
Definitions include: to offer a promotion in a job or position in life.
Definitions include: more than ramen profitable.
Definitions include: To copy or plagiarize, commonly used by emcees to indicate a plagiarist.
Definitions include: the acquisition of one company by another, for the purpose of acquiring the employees more so than other aspects of the company's business.
Definitions include: the contract involved in an agreement.
Definitions include: a person who always agrees with superiors.
Definitions include: a pejorative term for both the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) and RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), likening them to the mafia.
Definitions include: a person who provides illegal drugs.
Definitions include: in marketing, a satisfied customer who tells others about his positive experience with products of a particular brand name.

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Other terms relating to 'off':

Definitions include: what was previously expected to happen may not.
Definitions include: large buttocks.
Definitions include: to move away from.
Definitions include: to masturbate.
Definitions include: to get out of a prior obligation by asking.
Definitions include: to take on a situation one can't master.
Definitions include: to reprimand.
Definitions include: to ignore another person(s) in a rude manner.
Definitions include: to get rid of aggression or anger.
Definitions include: to do something to get rid of negative emotions.
Definitions include: to cheat on one's spouse.
Definitions include: to bore one.
Definitions include: to suggest ideas to another person to get feedback.
Definitions include: annoyed, very cross.
Definitions include: to end a relationship.

Other terms relating to 'shelf':

Definitions include: buttocks so large that a cocktail can be placed on them.
Definitions include: software that was purchased or written, but never used.
Definitions include: extremely attractive or supreme person or thing.

Other terms relating to 'the':

Definitions include: the real information or the proof, instruction, the know how, where, when, and why about something or someone.
Definitions include: walking, generally as opposed to driving.
Definitions include: interrogation.
Definitions include: extremely intoxicated
Definitions include: information.
Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting.
Definitions include: a good estimate.
Definitions include: a secret advantage.
Definitions include: inclusive.
Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
Definitions include: with the amount of time left to finish a task rapidly disappearing.
Definitions include: having an opinion or belief prior to it becoming common or popular.
Definitions include: of a male, to urinate.
Definitions include: Someone being butthurt over having something, they do to others regularly, done to the them
Definitions include: secret sexual activity with a person other than one's partner.

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