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consignment store

American  

noun

  1. a retail store that sells secondhand items on behalf of others and receives a percentage of the sales price.


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Mayweather wrote a check for $200,000 to Las Vegas high-end consignment store Gold and Beyond for the timepiece on Dec. 25, 2024.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 17, 2026

Aptly named, the Gold Mine, a second-hand consignment store that funds the community library, might turn up a YSL coat or a Moncler sweater for peanuts.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 3, 2025

Last year, the online consignment store ThredUp received more clothing than any other year since its founding in 2009, with many of those items coming from fast-fashion retailers, the company said.

From Seattle Times Jul. 10, 2022

A crowd gathers in the front yard to watch a bonfire of those photographs, while the woman’s belongings are carted off to a kind of consignment store.

From Washington Post Jun. 27, 2022

The downsides of a growth spurt means that my mom insists on buying clothes that are two sizes too big for me when she’s at the consignment store.

From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden

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