Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Previously used by another; not new.
- adjective Dealing in previously used merchandise.
- adjective Obtained, derived, or borrowed from another; not original.
- adverb In an indirect manner; indirectly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not original or primary; received from another.
- adjective Not new; already or previously possessed or used by another.
- adjective See
Hand , n., 10.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of goods not
new ;previously owned andused by another - adjective of a dealer
dealing in suchmerchandise - adverb
indirectly
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb by indirect means
- adjective derived from what is primary or original; not firsthand
- adjective previously used or owned by another
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Examples
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From the article, “In one case in Ohio, a judge who ordered a mother not to smoke near her 8-year-old daughter cited medical journals and a Google search that lists 60,000-plus links for “secondhand smoke” and 30,000-plus links for ’secondhand smoke children.’”
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I got it secondhand from a neighbor and I have had to do (and have done) a lot of replacement parts.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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I got it secondhand from a neighbor and I have had to do (and have done) a lot of replacement parts.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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Studies have shown that toxins in secondhand smoke can cause lung and nasal cancer in dogs and malignant lymphoma in cats.
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I got it secondhand from a neighbor and I have had to do (and have done) a lot of replacement parts.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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The only team that doesn't have at least a 10% boost in secondhand prices for Heat games is the Sacramento Kings, whose seats go up 9%.
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I got it secondhand from a neighbor and I have had to do (and have done) a lot of replacement parts.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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The Heat Index The NBA teams that are seeing the biggest increase in secondhand-market ticket-sale prices when accounting for Miami Heat games.
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I never saw Anthony Howell perform again, but his passable poetry washes up in secondhand bookshops and he appears to have made a sideways move into tango.
Stewart Lee: The best performance I've ever seen Stewart Lee 2010
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A clothing snob who is found dead in secondhand crap outfits would be an indicator that something was truly off-kilter.
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