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Definition of 'used'English
Verb
( head)
(use)
* 1948 , , North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States , J. B. Lippincott Company, page 75
- In 1866 Colonel J. F. Meline noted that the rebozo had almost disappeared in Santa Fe and that hoop skirts, on sale in the stores, were being widely used .
- You used me!
(intransitive|as an auxiliary verb|now only in past tense) to perform habitually; to be accustomed [to doing something]
- He used to live here, but moved away last year.
Adjective
( en-adj)
That is or has or have been used.
* {{quote-magazine|date=2013-08-03|volume=408|issue=8847|magazine=(The Economist)
|title= Boundary problems
|passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most- used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
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That has or have previously been owned by someone else.
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Familiar through use; usual; accustomed.
* 1965 , (Bob Dylan), (Like a Rolling Stone)
- Nobody's ever taught you how to live out on the street and now you're gonna have to get used to it.
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Synonyms
* (having been used)
* (previously owned by someone else) pre-owned, second-hand
Antonyms
* (having been used) unused
* (previously owned by someone else) new
Derived terms
* usedness
* well-used
See also
* used to
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