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secondhand


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Secondhand  \Sec"ond*hand`\,  a. 
  1.  Not  original  or  primary;  received  from  another. 
 
  They  have  but  a  secondhand  or  implicit  knowledge. 
  --Locke. 
 
  2.  Not  new  already  or  previously  or  used  by  another;  as  a 
  secondhand  book,  garment. 
 
  {At  second  hand}.  See  {Hand},  n.,  10. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  secondhand 
  adj  1:  derived  from  what  is  primary  or  original;  not  firsthand;  "a 
  secondhand  report";  "a  secondhand  account  of  a  memory 
  of  something  once  read";  "most  of  our  knowledge  is 
  secondhand" 
  2:  previously  used  or  owned  by  another;  "bought  a  secondhand 
  (or  used)  car"  [syn:  {used}] 
  adv  :  by  indirect  means  "I  heard  about  it  only  secondhand  or 
  thirdhand--maybe  even  fourthhand" 




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