thrift shop
noun
: a shop that sells secondhand articles and especially clothes and is often run for charitable purposes
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Consider this your checklist when shopping at Grandma’s house or the local thrift shop.
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Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 22 Mar. 2025
Maybe some plates and cutlery could go to a thrift shop, and some furniture.
—Colm Tóibín, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2025
Pegasus Creative Reuse is part thrift shop, part art supply store and part scavenger hunt.
—Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 13 Feb. 2025
Proceeds from the thrift shop help fund programs and services for homeless community members in North County and working poor families and seniors, among others.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2025
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Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 22 Mar. 2025
Maybe some plates and cutlery could go to a thrift shop, and some furniture.
—Colm Tóibín, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2025
Pegasus Creative Reuse is part thrift shop, part art supply store and part scavenger hunt.
—Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 13 Feb. 2025
Proceeds from the thrift shop help fund programs and services for homeless community members in North County and working poor families and seniors, among others.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for thrift shop
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“Thrift shop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thrift%20shop. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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