standard issue

Definitions

1. 1

   Regularly and conventionally distributed by an organization (for instance, to its…

   Regularly and conventionally distributed by an organization (for instance, to its personnel); for regular usage; not specialized.

   • Near-synonyms: standard; stock; regular; baseline
   • 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.
2. 2

   Not special or remarkable

   Not special or remarkable; conventional.

   • Near-synonyms: basic, garden variety, humdrum, ordinary, pedestrian, plain, plain Jane, plain vanilla, unremarkable; see also Thesaurus:normal
   • Standard-issue liberal guilt and hand-wringingly uninteresting dilemmas are the order of the day, with no real surprises or challenges.
3. 3

   The normal equipment or supplies issued by an organization.

   • A Smith & Wesson double-action .38 revolver was the standard issue in those days.
   • For food and clothing, we were happy to get the standard issue, as it was way better than anything we had been used to, truth be told.

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