secondhand
IPA: sˈɛkʌndhænd
noun
- Secondhand goods (especially clothes) collectively.
adjective
- (of goods) Not new; previously owned and used by another.
- (of a dealer) Dealing in such merchandise.
- (figurative) Indirect; from a secondary source; not firsthand.
- (of cigarette or cigar smoke) Inhaled from the air near someone else smoking.
adverb
- In a used or previously-owned condition.
- Indirectly.
second hand
IPA: sˈɛkʌndhˈænd
noun
- An intermediate person or means; intermediary.
- On a clock or watch, the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed.
adjective
- Alternative form of secondhand [(of goods) Not new; previously owned and used by another.]
second-hand
IPA: sˈɛkʌnhˈænd
adjective
- Alternative spelling of secondhand [(of goods) Not new; previously owned and used by another.]
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Examples of "secondhand" in Sentences
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Examples of "second-hand" in Sentences
- The dismantling of a second-hand bookstore; also, zombies
- On Saturday, I helped take apart a second-hand bookstore.
- My friends had a lovely second-hand bookstore called City Basement Books.
- Rumor that I heard second-hand, but from a reliable source, supports Teddy.
- They were easy enough to acquire second-hand, and I read them on my travels over the last week.
- One day, looking over a second-hand bookstall with Minna, she opened a snuffy volume that had English poems in it.
- If you tend to buy a lot of second-hand books, the places to go are AddAll and Bookfinder - both do worldwide searches, and both include the Amazon providers and others who may do the same books but cheaper.
- Today I tried a trawl through the bookshops of Belfast, but was very disappointed; lean pickings in Waterstone's and Forbidden Planet, and most of the second-hand shops have gone; every single one of the cluster of about half a dozen from Harry Hall's in Smithfield down to the arcade in North Street has closed.
- There should be a burka tax; tax the buying of burkas, tax the income of husbands of women who wear burkas; impose annual licensing fees on burkas along with number plates – paid for by the husbands; track burkas with street cameras and impose a burka surcharge tax on burka wearers entering public places where people may be traumatised by second-hand burka claustrophobia.
- He cleaned the grave out, procured some reddle and water, brushed the bricks over with it, and informed the person that he had a most excellent _second-hand grave to sell as good as new_, and if she thought it would suit her poor departed friend, would let her have it at half the price of a new one: this was too good an offer to be rejected; but Jemmy found, on measuring the coffin, that his second-hand grave was too short, and consequently was obliged to dig the earth away from the end of the grave and beat the bricks in with a beetle, before it would admit its new tenant.
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