sec|ond-hand

sec|ond-hand
sec|ond-hand «SEHK uhnd HAND», adjective, adverb.
–adj.
1. not original; obtained from another: »

second-hand information.

2. not new; used or worn already by someone else: »

a second-hand car, second-hand clothes, second-hand books.

3. dealing in used goods: »

a second-hand bookstore.

–adv.
from other than the original source; not directly; not firsthand: »

Babylonian culture could continue to reach Canaan second-hand (S. Cook).

1. the hand on a clock or watch pointing to the seconds. It moves around the whole dial once in a minute.
2. Obsolete. an intermediary; middleman.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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