SECONDHAND - Definition

Pronunciation:		`sekun'hand
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WordNet Dictionary

	Definition:	[adv] by indirect means; "I heard about it only secondhand or thirdhand"; "he prefers to buy secondhand" [adj] previously used or owned by another; "bought a secondhand (or used) car" [adj] 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"

	Synonyms:	old, secondary, used


Webster's 1913 Dictionary

	Definition:	\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.