convenience food

1. 1.

   any packaged dish or food that can be prepared quickly and easily as by thawing or heating

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Questions about convenience food

What does convenience food mean?

convenience food means "any packaged dish or food that can be prepared quickly and easily as by thawing or heating".

Is convenience food a common word?

convenience food is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.