standard issue en · ADJ
Meanings
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(not-comparable, of a piece of equipment) Regularly and conventionally distributed by an organization (for instance, to its personnel); for regular usage; not specialized.
Most employees of this company get a standard issue laptop, but those in the art department get a more powerful model.
While we have long endured the sneering tone in discussions about council homes with “ugly” fire doors, and standard-issue gas heaters hastily turned into MDF fireplaces on home-makeover shows, CDWM explores a subtler classism.
2020 May 27, Kieran Yates, “Fifteen years of TV dinners: why Come Dine With Me has endured”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:Near-synonyms: standard; stock; regular; baseline
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(broadly, derogatory, not-comparable) Not special or remarkable; conventional.
Standard-issue liberal guilt and hand-wringingly uninteresting dilemmas are the order of the day, with no real surprises or challenges.
2016 January 7, Peter Bradshaw, “A War review – standard issue Afghan war drama”, in the Guardian, →ISSN:Near-synonyms: basic, garden variety, humdrum, ordinary, pedestrian, plain, plain Jane, plain vanilla, unremarkable; see also Thesaurus:normal
Antonyms
specialized · customized · special issue · deluxe · custom · bespoke · special · premium
Coordinates
Synonyms
improminent · humdrum · unremarkable · workaday · run-of-the-mill · garden variety · wakeaday · bog-standard · plain vanilla · garden variety · standard · congruent · standard · normal · basic · stock · standard issue · par · common · vulgar · par for the course · quotidian · expected · usual · average · baseline · common-and-garden · ordinary · mundane · pedestrian · customary · consistent · ordinary · unremarkable · medial · regular · regular · plain Jane · basic · plain · plain · typical · conventional · routine · commonplace · unstrange · common-or-garden · plain vanilla · everyday · unexceptional · natural