Usually means: Discarded item, no longer wanted.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. castoff: Merriam-Webster
  2. castoff: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. castoff: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Castoff, castoff: Wordnik
  5. castoff: Wiktionary
  6. castoff: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. castoff: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. castoff: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. castoff: Dictionary.com
  10. castoff: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Castoff (publishing): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. castoff: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. castoff: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. castoff: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (castoff)

▸ noun:  Something that has been rejected or discarded; a reject.
▸ adjective:  discarded, rejected.

Similar:
reject, rejectment, throw-out, throw-off, throw out, rejectamenta, abjection, discardure, discard, left-off, more...

Opposite:
keep, retain, hold onto, preserve

Adjectives:
new, justified, old, rough, accurate, unjustified

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Similar:
reject, rejectment, throw-out, throw-off, throw out, rejectamenta, abjection, discardure, discard, left-off, more...

Opposite:
keep, retain, hold onto, preserve

Adjectives:
new, justified, old, rough, accurate, unjustified



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