second-hand

Universal Words adjective 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