second
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5.5
- noun
- /ˈsɛkənd/
- My mother and I worked out a deal whereby Ola fed my sister and me one night a week, supplied us with "seconds" in undergarments, and on occasion made my sister and me absolutely beautiful party dresses from undergarment taffeta and satin out of remnants.
- factory seconds
- sell seconds
- buy seconds
Examples
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The huge warehouse sells seconds of sunny, hand-painted plates and tiles decorated with animals, fish, and plants.
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Also, look out for clearance items and "seconds" sales when not-quite-perfect diapers are sold at deeply discounted prices.
Blog text (32) -
This is a second hand shop for famous brands and really this time all of them are there.
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The fruit vendor sold me a box of seconds for $10.
Blog text (20) -
But as Hasslebrook turned away, he saw a sign: FACTORY SECONDS.
Fiction book (1994) -
I met this guy, and he distributes all these seconds and irregulars.
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The factory also runs a true outlet store, stocked with overruns or seconds from the assembly line.
Synonyms
1
4.8
An item sold cheaply because it has a small defect
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
8
6.0
A person who has a less important role and helps someone more important
Compounds
27
2.8
A child of your parent's first cousin who shares your great-grandparents but not your grandparents
18
4.4
A player who stands near second base and catches or throws the ball to get runners out
12
6.0
A junior officer with the lowest rank in the Army, Air Force, or Marine Corps
6
6.3
A meeting of Catholic Church leaders from 1962 to 1965 that changed worship and encouraged talks with other Christian churches
- Specialized
6
7.0
Energy naturally spreads from hot places to cold ones, increasing disorder
4
4.1
A measure of speed that shows how many kilometers something moves in one second
4
5.0
An upper seating area at the back of a theatre with the least expensive seats
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4.3
A woman who cares for someone like a mother, often with or instead of their own mother
- Specialized
3
3.0
Words that refer to the person or people you speak to, for example 'you'
- Specialized
1
7.9
A stomach part in animals like cows that helps break down plant food
- Archaic
1
7.7
A period in old age when mental decline makes a person behave like a young child
- Specialized
1
2.8
A unit that shows how many small pieces of information called bits are sent every second
- Specialized
1
4.7
A rule that says how a force makes an object move faster depending on its mass
- Specialized
1
4.5
A rule that a force changes an object's motion more when the force is bigger or the object is lighter
- Specialized
1
6.7
The distance light travels in one second in empty space, about 300,000 kilometers
- Jargon
1
6.5
A system or tool that stores information to help you remember and organize things
- Specialized
1
6.8
An extra second added to clocks so they match how fast the Earth turns
1
8.9
A war between China and Japan from 1894 to 1895 that ended in a clear Japanese victory
1
8.8
A military campaign by European Christians in the 1100s to take back the Holy Land that failed because leaders fought
- Specialized
1
4.4
A unit for measuring how fast a computer processor runs, equal to one million instructions per second
1
9.9
A church meeting in 787 that stopped destroying religious images and allowed their use in worship
Surface Forms
Etymology
Second for goods with small faults comes from the idea of 'second' quality, meaning they are not the top item but the one 'after' the best, so seconds are sold cheaper because they are slightly lower in quality.