English
Noun
thrift shop (plural thrift shops)
- (Canada, US) A shop which sells mainly used goods (especially clothes) at low prices.
2021 February 6, Rachel Monroe, “Ultra-fast Fashion Is Eating the World”, in The Atlantic[1]:Some thrift shops, glutted with flimsy, synthetic wares, have stopped accepting fast-fashion donations.
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shop which sells used goods
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- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 舊貨店 / 旧货店 (zh) (jiùhuòdiàn), 二手店 (èrshǒudiàn)
- Dutch: kringloopwinkel (nl) m or f
- Esperanto: brokantejo
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- Finnish: kierrätyskauppa
- French: friperie (fr) f
- German: Secondhandladen (de) m, Secondhandshop (de) m, Gebrauchtwarenladen m, Gebrauchtwarenhandel m
- Hungarian: adománybolt, használtcikk-bolt, használtruha-bolt, turkáló (hu)
- Japanese: リサイクルショップ (risaikuru shoppu)
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- Latin: scrutarium n
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- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: brukthandel m
- Nynorsk: brukthandel m
- Polish: lumpeks (pl) m, second hand (pl) m
- Portuguese: adelo (pt) m (Portugal), brechó (pt) m (Brazil)
- Romanian: please add this translation if you can
- Russian: комиссио́нный магази́н (ru) m (komissiónnyj magazín), комиссио́нка (ru) f (komissiónka), магази́н поде́ржанных това́ров m (magazín podéržannyx továrov)
- Spanish: tienda de segunda mano f, prendería (es) f, cambalache (es) m
- Swedish: second hand-butik c, second hand-affär c
- Tagalog: ukay-ukay (colloquial)
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Further reading
- “thrift shop”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “thrift shop”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “thrift shop”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “thrift shop”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.