How to say "off-the-shelf" in Japanese
Choosing the right word
- no-adjectiveCovers ready-made or off-the-rack goods, especially ready-to-wear clothing. It is a less common loanword, so it is seldom the word you want for off-the-shelf in general; reach for it mainly in the clothing sense.
- 市販しはんno-adjectiveCovers the commercial sense of off-the-shelf: store-bought, over-the-counter products available to the general public rather than custom-made. This common word is the usual choice for off-the-shelf software, parts, or medicines.
Use 市販 for products you can buy in stores as ordinary commercial goods; 「レディメイド」 is much less common and mainly suggests ready-made, especially ready-to-wear clothing.
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