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shop-soiled
adjective UK (US shopworn) COMMERCEDefinition
› used to describe goods in a store that have become dirty or damaged and that are often sold at reduced prices: The standard of quality of secondhand or shop-soiled goods is clearly less than of brand new goods.
(Definition of shop-soiled adjective from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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