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hand-me-down

adjective as in previously owned

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I grew up wearing my older brother’s and older sister’s hand-me-down clothes.

Her queen-size bed is a hand-me-down from a friend.

Expensive cars and designer clothes weren’t an option; when he learned to drive he was pushing the family’s hand-me-down Acura.

Yet budget is also a factor; teen drivers often end up with a hand-me-down vehicle or a used vehicle.

The warehouse has also seen fewer of the startups that used to buy a lot of the city’s hand-me-down office furniture, perhaps due to the current economic uncertainty.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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