canned

CEFRB1

/kænd/

adjective

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At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Also pronounced

Deep Dive

Extra meanings

Previously prepared; not fresh or new; standardized, mass-produced, or lacking originality or customization.
Preserved in cans.
Terminated, fired from a job.

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And the punch-lines seem to disappear like clouds across the sky / And the laughter could be real or could be canned
1996, Paul Heaton, Dave Rotheray, “Liar's Bar”, in Blue Is the Colour, performed by The Beautiful South
Unfortunately, some of the canned code, which Visual C++ gives to you when creating an application, is not CE aware and gives you compile errors.
1998, Dr. Dobb's Journal: Software Tools for the Professional Programmer
The raider story was canned by the censor on instructions from the naval authorities.
1997, Frederick T. Smith, Backroom Briefings: John Curtin's War
The vested owners of all those sun-drenched tract houses may stick around for a while and fight over the region, perhaps thinking that they are reenacting the great historical dramas of the nineteenth century—such is the long-term effect of canned entertainment on the collective imagination.
2005, James Howard Kunstler, chapter 7, in The Long Emergency, page 279
Throughout the evening, Mr. Christie’s admonition about canned lines and rehearsed speeches hovered and seemed to recalibrate how the crowd — and television viewers — processed what Mr. Rubio said (and resaid, over and over).
2016 February 7, Michael Barbaro, “Once Impervious, Marco Rubio Is Diminished by a Caustic Chris Christie”, in The New York Times

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