standard issue
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]standard issue (not comparable)
- (of a piece of equipment) Regularly and conventionally distributed by an organization (for instance, to its personnel); for regular usage; not specialized.
- Antonyms: special, specialized, special issue; custom, customized, bespoke
- Hyponym: government issue
- Coordinate term: mil-spec
- 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.
- 2020 May 27, Kieran Yates, “Fifteen years of TV dinners: why Come Dine With Me has endured”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 October 2026:
- 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.
- (by extension, derogatory) Not special or remarkable; conventional.
- Antonyms: premium, deluxe
- Near-synonyms: basic, garden variety, humdrum, ordinary, pedestrian, plain, plain Jane, plain vanilla, unremarkable; see also Thesaurus:normal
- 2016 January 7, Peter Bradshaw, “A War review – standard issue Afghan war drama”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian[2], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 October 2026:
- Standard-issue liberal guilt and hand-wringingly uninteresting dilemmas are the order of the day, with no real surprises or challenges.
Noun
[edit]- 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.