Alternative forms

• second-hand, second hand, secondhanded, second-handed, 2ndhand

Etymology

From second +‎ handCategory:English compound terms#SECONDHAND.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsɛk(ə)n(d)ˈhænd/, /ˈsɛk(ə)n(d)ˌhænd/Category:English 3-syllable words#SECONDHANDCategory:English 3-syllable words#SECONDHANDCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#SECONDHAND

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• Rhymes: -ændCategory:Rhymes:English/ænd#SECONDHANDCategory:Rhymes:English/ænd/3 syllables#SECONDHAND

Adjective

secondhand (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#SECONDHANDCategory:English adjectives#SECONDHANDCategory:English uncomparable adjectives#SECONDHANDCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SECONDHANDCategory:Pages with entries#SECONDHANDCategory:Pages with 2 entries#SECONDHAND

1. (of goods) Not new; previously owned and used by another.

   Synonyms: used, (euphemistic) preloved, pre-owned, hand-me-down

2. (of a dealer) Dealing in such merchandise.
3. (figurative) Indirect; from a secondary source; not firsthand.
   • 1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 417:

     In the light of recent history it is somewhat curious that this decisive power of the professional secondhand dealers in ideas should not yet be more generally recognized.

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   • 1984, “What’s Love Got To Do With It”, performed by Tina Turner:

     What's love got to do, got to do with it? / What's love but a secondhand emotion?

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   • 2013, Bruce Crow, A Land of Strangers: Cane Creek Tennessee's Mormon Massacre and its Tragic Effects on the People Who Lived There‎:

     So nearly every name comes from a second hand source. The exception to this rule has been the vigilantes themselves. Rube Mathis and Jack Wells, both admitted to participating, and Mathis identified his brother.

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   • 2014, James Lambert, “A Much Tortured Expression: A New Look At `Hobson-Jobson'”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 27, number 1, page 60:

     However, Partridge’s information is second-hand, and requires verification.

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   • 2014, Jill Mann, Life in Words: Essays on Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet, and Malory‎:

     The relation of Tristram's death is thus distanced from the narrative to which it belongs, and it is also distanced in that we do not see it happen with our own eyes, but hear of it by a second-hand report which introduces it incidentally, not for its own sake.

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4. (of cigarette or cigar smoke) Inhaled from the air near someone else smoking.

   exposure to secondhand smoke from cigarette-smoking colleaguesCategory:English terms with usage examples#SECONDHAND

Noun

secondhand (uncountable)Category:English lemmas#SECONDHANDCategory:English nouns#SECONDHANDCategory:English uncountable nouns#SECONDHANDCategory:English uncountable nouns#SECONDHANDCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SECONDHANDCategory:Pages with entries#SECONDHANDCategory:Pages with 2 entries#SECONDHAND

1. Secondhand goods (especially clothes) collectively.
   • 2023 March 12, Lauren Cochrane, “Cheap, cool and kind to nature: how secondhand became UK fashion’s main attraction”, in The Observer‎:

     Childrenswear is now the fastest growing sector of secondhand. […] The huge increase in the market for childrenswear shows another way in which older generations are getting into secondhand.

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Adverb

secondhand (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#SECONDHANDCategory:English adverbs#SECONDHANDCategory:English uncomparable adverbs#SECONDHANDCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SECONDHANDCategory:Pages with entries#SECONDHANDCategory:Pages with 2 entries#SECONDHAND

1. In a used or previously-owned condition.
   • 1996, Peter Golding, Black Jack McEwen: Political Gladiator, →ISBN, page 50:

     It was almost an article of faith with McEwen never to buy new if he could buy secondhand.

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   • 2004, Ruth Doan MacDougall, Henrietta Snow, →ISBN, page 47:

     He glanced back at the Jeep, which he'd bought secondhand a dozen years ago and now, fifteen years old, was gaining on "classic" status.

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2. Indirectly.

See also

• firsthand
• thirdhand
• vicarious

Alternative forms

• second-hand

Etymology

Borrowed from EnglishCategory:German terms borrowed from English#SECONDHANDCategory:German terms derived from English#SECONDHAND secondhand. Compare Romanian second-hand and Russian сѐконд-хе́нд (sèkond-xénd).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsɛkəntˈhɛ(ː)nt/, [ˌsɛ.kŋ̍tˈhɛnt], [-k(ə)nt-], [-ˈhɛːnt]Category:German 3-syllable words#SECONDHANDCategory:German terms with IPA pronunciation#SECONDHAND

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Adjective

secondhand (indeclinable, predicative only)Category:German lemmas#SECONDHANDCategory:German adjectives#SECONDHANDCategory:German uncomparable adjectives#SECONDHANDCategory:German entries with incorrect language header#SECONDHANDCategory:Pages with entries#SECONDHANDCategory:Pages with 2 entries#SECONDHAND

1. secondhand, (usually more specifically) acquired at a second-hand shop

   Synonyms: gebraucht, aus zweiter Hand

   Ist das Kleid neu oder secondhand?

   Is that dress new or secondhand?

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