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pre-owned

/pree-ohnd/US // priˈoʊnd //UK // (ˌpriːˈəʊnd) //

二手货,二手的,二手,二手房

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : previously owned; used; secondhand: a sale of preowned furs.

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Examples

  • By 2012, Democratic President Barack Obama owned the Asian-American vote, winning it by 47 percentage points.

  • He has picked pre-primary brawls with Christie, Perry, and Marco Rubio.

  • Tinder and OkCupid are both owned by IAC, the parent company of The Daily Beast.

  • He was born in an apartment above the grocery store owned by his immigrant parents in South Jamaica, Queens.

  • The TVA, a federally owned and chartered electric power provider, is a New Deal legacy just like Social Security.

  • The Spaniards, indeed, feigned to regard them only as a remnant of the rebels who had joined the pre-existing brigand bands.

  • Doubtless the commentator habit is fixed in the nature of man; but it was pre-eminently mediaeval.

  • Neither privately owned nor government stock is entitled to voting power.

  • From pre-natal days I was destined for the railway service, as an oyster to its shell.

  • Until a few months ago, the boy has lived on a sugar plantation owned by a rich Tagal planter.