ready-cooked

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   cooked in such a way as to be ready for sale

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Questions about ready-cooked

What does ready-cooked mean?

ready-cooked means "cooked in such a way as to be ready for sale".

How many syllables are in ready-cooked?

ready-cooked has 4 syllables: rea-dy--coo-ked. The stress falls on "dy-".

Is ready-cooked a common word?

ready-cooked 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.