shrink-wrapped software

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   software on CD-ROMs that are boxed and shrink-wrapped and sold in stores (implying a widely supported standard platform)

   Broadersoftware

Questions about shrink-wrapped software

What does shrink-wrapped software mean?

shrink-wrapped software means "software on CD-ROMs that are boxed and shrink-wrapped and sold in stores (implying a widely supported standard platform)".

Is shrink-wrapped software a common word?

shrink-wrapped software 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.