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secondhand

[ sek-uhnd-hand ]

adjective

  1. not directly known or experienced; obtained from others or from books:

    Most of our knowledge is secondhand.

  2. previously used or owned:

    secondhand clothes.

  3. dealing in previously used goods:

    a secondhand bookseller.



adverb

  1. after another user or owner:

    He bought it secondhand.

  2. indirectly; at second hand:

    He heard the news secondhand.

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Other Word Forms

  • oԻ·󲹲ԻĻ·Ա noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of secondhand1

First recorded in 1645–55; second 1 + hand
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Example Sentences

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And the market for the appearance of success, especially secondhand, is only growing.

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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.

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Seyfried and Moore shared with each other the specifics of how they experienced addiction secondhand.

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The jury heard ample testimony about Johnson and Clement, but witnesses offered mostly secondhand accounts of Stinson’s role in the gang.

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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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