- 1訂製的、客製的（台灣常說「客製化」；相對「現成的」）
Made-to-order things are made for one particular customer, after that person asks for them, rather than sitting in a shop already finished. Clothing and furniture are the usual examples: you choose the fabric, the size, the colour, and they build it. It may be cut to your body (then it is also made-to-measure), but it need not be — a made-to-order sofa might be a standard model in the cloth you picked. The opposite is ready-made or off-the-shelf. British English also has for the high-end, “we make this to your request” idea; made-to-order is the plainer cousin of that. In restaurants, made to order (often without ) just means cooked when you order it, not sitting under a lamp; that is the same idea in food. The form is the adjective you put before a noun: made-to-order furniture.
made-to-order 指的是客人下單後才為他製作的東西，不是店裡已經做好的現成品。衣服和家具最常見，客人可以自己選布料、尺寸和顏色。它不一定要量身，例如一張標準款沙發換成客人挑的布料，也算 made-to-order。相反的是現成的，也就是 ready-made 或 off-the-shelf。
在餐廳，「made to order」（常省略連字號）指點餐後才現煮，概念相同。放在名詞前時要加連字號，例如「made-to-order furniture」（訂製的家具）。台灣常說「客製化」，意思很接近。
From the word’s history
Compare bespoke, a similar 'made to request' from 'command'.
可比較 bespoke：也是從「吩咐」引申出「照要求做的」。
組成made + to + order: made according to someone’s order, i.e. their request. Parallel in spirit to bespoke (“made to a spoken request”), but not built from the same pieces.
同家族的字
- made-to-measuresame “made-to-” pattern; that one is specifically fitted to measurements
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
made-to-orderadj
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Made for a specific individual, but not always to individual specifications.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。