"ready-meal" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2007, Christopher Brookmyre, Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, →ISBN, page 212:",
          "text": "This would not, he assured us, compromise the electromagnetic insulation, as the glass would be embedded with a mesh screen similar to the ones that prevent microwave ovens from cooking the person on the outside while he stares impatiently at his half-defrosted ready-meal.",
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        {
          "ref": "2008, Margaret Linehan, Consumer Behaviour: Irish Patterns and Perspectives, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Although the new chilled ready-meals should have changed perception, consumers were still in a 'frozen ready-meal' state of mind which perceives ready-meals as poor in taste and quality.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Allie Spencer, Tug of Love, →ISBN:",
          "text": "We chatted about my job, his job and how, after he'd done his telly bit, it was impossible for him to buy a supermarket ready-meal without the checkout lady giving him grief about overpackaging.",
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        "Alternative form of ready meal"
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  "word": "ready-meal"
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          "word": "ready meal"
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        {
          "ref": "2007, Christopher Brookmyre, Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, →ISBN, page 212:",
          "text": "This would not, he assured us, compromise the electromagnetic insulation, as the glass would be embedded with a mesh screen similar to the ones that prevent microwave ovens from cooking the person on the outside while he stares impatiently at his half-defrosted ready-meal.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Margaret Linehan, Consumer Behaviour: Irish Patterns and Perspectives, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Although the new chilled ready-meals should have changed perception, consumers were still in a 'frozen ready-meal' state of mind which perceives ready-meals as poor in taste and quality.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2012, Allie Spencer, Tug of Love, →ISBN:",
          "text": "We chatted about my job, his job and how, after he'd done his telly bit, it was impossible for him to buy a supermarket ready-meal without the checkout lady giving him grief about overpackaging.",
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