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secondhand
[ sek-uhnd-hand ]
adjective
- not directly known or experienced; obtained from others or from books:
Most of our knowledge is secondhand.
- previously used or owned:
secondhand clothes.
- dealing in previously used goods:
a secondhand bookseller.
adverb
- after another user or owner:
He bought it secondhand.
- indirectly; at second hand:
He heard the news secondhand.
Other Word Forms
- oԻ·ԻĻ·Ա noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of secondhand1
Example Sentences
And the market for the appearance of success, especially secondhand, is only growing.
And perhaps because we’ve largely tried to buy mostly used and secondhand, the sacrifice felt most acutely has been in the loss of our most precious resource: time.
Seyfried and Moore shared with each other the specifics of how they experienced addiction secondhand.
The jury heard ample testimony about Johnson and Clement, but witnesses offered mostly secondhand accounts of Stinson’s role in the gang.
Joshua Morey knows their stories only secondhand, but now, “it’s become my life’s mission, our Japanese American story in America.”
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