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Definition of "brand-new" []

  • Being in a fresh and unused condition; completely new. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "brand-new" in a sentence
  • "Politically, however, adding a third "tax handle" by which politicians can grab people-now retail sales at the cash register in addition to personal income at the payroll window and business revenue before it leaves the office-creates what Michele Bachmann rightly called a brand-new tax stream to squeeze more revenue out of the people."
  • "How any language works as a constantly redesigned tool kit depends on how its speakers put it to use, and how the innovations that they introduce eventually furnish them with what looks like a brand-new supply of instruments."
  • "And it recast another phrase then already in use: brand-new."