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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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