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off the shelf en · ADP
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of off-the-shelf.
Stadler Project Manager Matthias Hammerle explained: "These trains for the Liverpool City Region are not 'off the shelf' but have been tailored to a very specific brief."
2019 October 23, Rail, page 28:After the war, the invaluable experience gained with mass production of the TP engines saw Davey Paxman in a favourable position to supply such units almost "off the shelf", a facility found to be of great value by oil companies engaged in well-drilling; [...].
1964 May, R. K. Evans, “The Ventura—Paxman's high-speed engine”, in Modern Railways, page 328: