1 not new; owned by sb else before:
second-hand cars * a second-hand bookshop (= for selling second-hand books)
2 (often disapproving) (of news, information, etc.) learned from other people, not from your own experience:
second-hand knowledge / opinions
second-hand adverb:
I bought the camera second-hand. * I only heard about it second-hand.
compareFIRST-HAND
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is second-hand a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, second-hand is tagged as adjective.
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