baked in
adj.— «Otherwise, he said, all of the growth that has redounded to the Japanese this year will be baked in on a longer term basis while what the domestic industry “needs more than anything else is volume.”» —“Import curbs” in Detroit, Michigan Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada) July 1, 1980. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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