secondhand
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2.5
- adjective
- /ˈsɛkəndˌhænd/
:
de segunda mano
- At the market, you can often find secondhand books in good condition.
- secondhand smoke
And they claim to be Scotlands largest bookshop or Scotlands largest secondhand bookshop.
- And they claim to be Scotlands largest bookshop or Scotlands largest secondhand bookshop.
Examples
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I found a great deal on secondhand furniture at the thrift store.
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There are more masks, dolls with staring eyes and perfect china faces, secondhand sofas stuffed with pillows covered with chintz.
Fiction book (1994) -
Oh, about $15 for the shoes, secondhand, and I made the rest.
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Does she sleep in a bed that you bought... - in a secondhand shop? - Yes.
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Feeling this, she could do nothing but change the subject and give him his gift, a secondhand guitar.
Fiction book (1996) -
You will be happy to just catch secondhand shoes, right Cal?
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A friend on the outside had found it at a secondhand costume store in Manhattan, in the Village.
Fiction book (2000) -
There is nothing as comfortable as wearing secondhand pajamas... ... that previously belonged to a very short person.
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Much less reasonable was the buying of old books, unnecessary secondhand clothes, knickknacks and other junk.
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For a lot of people, the collapse and used EV prices does mean that they might be able to get a good deal on a secondhand EV right now.
Synonyms
19
2.2
Not new, bought from someone who owned it before
Owned by someone else before
Antonyms
Compounds
How New
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Secondhand comes from second and hand, meaning 'in someone else's hands' after the first owner, so a secondhand item has been used before. That's why a secondhand bicycle or book is not new.