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standard issue

adj

Of a piece of equipment Regularly and conventionally distributed by an organization (for instance, to its personnel); for regular usage; not specialized.

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.

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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.2020 May 27, Kieran Yates, “Fifteen years of TV dinners: why Come Dine With Me has endured”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Broadly, Derogatory Not special or remarkable; conventional.

Near-synonyms: basic, garden variety, humdrum, ordinary, pedestrian, plain, plain Jane, plain vanilla, unremarkable; see also Thesaurus:normal
Standard-issue liberal guilt and hand-wringingly uninteresting dilemmas are the order of the day, with no real surprises or challenges.2016 January 7, Peter Bradshaw, “A War review – standard issue Afghan war drama”, in the Guardian, →ISSN:

standard issue

noun

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.

Related terms: standardization, standardness, service pistol