refurb
a thing that has been refurbished
Noun informal
- a thing that has been refurbished
- Most of the trains running today are refurbs.
- I paid $75 for a refurb Horrock-Ibbotson single-tip eight-and-a-half footer which casts like a dream. - 2005, Roger Emile Stouff, “March”, in Native Waters: A Few Moments in a Small Wooden Boat, iUniverse, →ISBN, Here...
- But what do you do if you already have equipment that you bought, on the cheap, and you don't know whether or not it is a refurb or not? - 2005, William M. Lolli, Backup 2 Disk Now! Advanced Design and Scalability Guide...
Origin
Clipping of refurbished.
Forms
Noun informal
- The act of refurbishing
- The refurb program is progressing on schedule
- Whatever happens long-term, we are going to have phase III, the refurb, the modernisation of Bury-Altrincham, and all that does need to happen and happen soon. - 2005, Tony McNulty MP, Integrated Transport: The Future...
- A redent refurb means that there is now a larger play area for children, with a table and crayons to amuse them while you flex Daddy's Amex. - 2005, Emmah Duffus, Charlotte Purssord,, edited by Emmah Fuffus, Where to...
Origin
Clipping of refurbishment.
Forms
Verb
- to refurbish
- Arrangements were made for deliveries, then he found a furnishings outlet and purchased what he felt he needed to refurb the place with essentials. - 2002, Chris C. Davidson, A Time for Everything: Even Time Could Not...
- The Three Cities group has done a wonderful job of restoring and refurbing the building, which once housed the run-down Swiss Excelsior Hotel - 2007, Pippa de Bruyn, “The Mother City: Cape Town & The Winelands”, in...
- Alan had stashed a number of them in his garage, waiting for time to refurb them. - 2008, Thomas Sherry, Shatter, Book 2 of Deep Winter, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 106:
Origin
Clipping of refurbish.