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thrift shop noun

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Definition

a shop which sells clothes and other goods that people no longer want, in order to raise money for people who are ill or have no food, homes, etc.

(Definition of thrift shop noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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