adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a used/second-hand car (= one that is not new )
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The company locates suitable new and used cars for buyers.
second-hand clothes (= not new )
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Charity shops sell second-hand clothes at low prices.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
book
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I have no use for second-hand books and unfashionable clothes and bits of ornament.
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He pauses at a second-hand book store, where the man who waits on him is unlike a tradesman.
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Time allowed 00:07 Read in studio Three best-selling writers are backing an appeal by Oxfam for a million second-hand books .
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They had second-hand books upstairs too.
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He sold second-hand books and rare first editions.
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The first two shops sell second-hand books only.
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Hay on Wye made its name by dealing in second-hand books .
books
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I have no use for second-hand books and unfashionable clothes and bits of ornament.
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Time allowed 00:07 Read in studio Three best-selling writers are backing an appeal by Oxfam for a million second-hand books .
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They had second-hand books upstairs too.
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He sold second-hand books and rare first editions.
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The first two shops sell second-hand books only.
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Hay on Wye made its name by dealing in second-hand books .
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Thanks to Mr Booth, Hay is known the world over for its second-hand books .
bookshop
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And a word of warning - when you arrive in Hye-on-Wye beware of the second-hand bookshops .
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I started to wander again, in and out of second-hand bookshops , and then into an amusement arcade.
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Browse through the second-hand bookshops of Beirut or Jerusalem, however, and the ghosts begin to appear.
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As usual I popped into the second-hand bookshops and, as usual, failed to find any old golf books of any interest.
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Turn left into Galerie Bortier, a forgotten nineteenth-century arcade occupied by second-hand bookshops .
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Thanks to that wonderful institution, known as the second-hand bookshop , such information will guide us to some delightful discoveries.
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You can often pick them up in second-hand bookshops .
car
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Now its humiliation has been deepened by, of all people, a second-hand car salesman.
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For example second-hand car deals are usually contracts for the sale of specific goods.
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Mr Fuller, who had been married three times, dealt in second-hand cars and dabbled in property and building.
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Clearly selling a second-hand car without an ignition key or registration document would not be acting in the ordinary course of business.
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Estate agents rank in public esteem with double-glazing salesmen, second-hand car dealers - behind even politicians and journalists.
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This poem is funny because it treats people as if they were second-hand cars for sale.
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Clearly, this is a matter of degree especially with an expensive second-hand car .
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Perhaps he had had a bad day at the garage and had not sold enough crummy second-hand cars .
clothes
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These old shops are still in business today, selling second-hand clothes and materials.
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Which is exactly what second-hand clothes are.
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The competition set a fairly tight budget so Julia decided to mix second-hand clothes with new ones.
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Hence my association with Flip, because they've been doing second-hand clothes for 20 or 30 years.
shop
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Yet whether lean times or creative instinct drive customers to second-hand shops , they remain a valuable option.
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There were almost more antique and second-hand shops in some of those villages than there were houses.
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Many fairly recent objects can be found at home, bought cheaply in second-hand shops or borrowed from local people.
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Old fridges and cookers should be taken to second-hand shops or civic-amenity sites to be refurbished instead of dumped.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Is that table new?" "No, we got it second-hand ."
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second-hand clothing
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Do you know where I can buy a second-hand bicycle?
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Max spent the whole afternoon looking around a second-hand book store.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Estate agents rank in public esteem with double-glazing salesmen, second-hand car dealers - behind even politicians and journalists.
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For example second-hand car deals are usually contracts for the sale of specific goods.
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This outfit specialises in reselling second-hand equipment.