standard-issue

adjective

stan·​dard-is·​sue ˈstan-dərd-ˈi-(ˌ)shü 

: standard, typical

a standard-issue action movie

a standard-issue blue suit

Synonyms

• average
• common
• commonplace
• cut-and-dried
• cut-and-dry
• everyday
• garden-variety
• normal
• ordinary
• prosaic
• routine
• run-of-the-mill
• standard
• unexceptional
• unremarkable
• usual
• workaday

Examples of standard-issue in a Sentence

another standard-issue thriller with a man on the run desperately trying to find the baddie who framed him for murder

Recent Examples on the Web

No standard-issue heartthrob, Law began his career as a veritable emblem of intimidating, unattainable, sometimes self-sabotaging male beauty. —Guy Lodge, Variety, 12 Dec. 2024

There are no close-ups with the victims or the villains or the rest of the German security team that barges into the movie like standard-issue action heroes only to retreat a beat later. —Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024

On Wednesday, prosecutors had walked jurors through workings of the Taser, a standard-issue stun gun for law enforcement manufactured by Axon. —Cristóbal Reyes, Orlando Sentinel, 21 Nov. 2024

Through the deliberately standard-issue story of an amateur criminal (Michael Fassbender) trying to arrange a $20 million drug shipment from a Ciudad Juárez cartel, McCarthy stares into the abyss of human evil and the abyss stares back, pitilessly. —Scott Tobias, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1966, in the meaning defined above