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hand-me-down

adjective as in previously owned

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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.

He loved school and read voraciously, but he was sharply aware of the differences in the segregated school system, like the tattered, hand-me-down books and rusty school buses for Black children.

It is one of the most deprived wards in the city and she recalls a childhood of hand-me-down clothes and poverty.

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

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