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second-hand
 
Adjective second-hand has 2 senses
  1. secondhand - 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"
    Antonym: primary (indirect, via secondary)
  2. secondhand, used - previously used or owned by another; "bought a secondhand (or used) car"
    Antonym: new (indirect, via old)
Adverbial second-hand has 1 sense
  1. secondhand - by indirect means; "I heard about it only secondhand or thirdhand"; "he prefers to buy secondhand"
    Derived from adjective secondhand2
Noun second-hand has 2 senses
  1. second hand - an intermediate person; used in the phrase `at second hand'; "he could learn at second hand from books"
    --1 is a kind of mediator, go-between, intermediator, intermediary, intercessor
  2. second hand - hand marking seconds on a timepiece
    --2 is a kind of hand
    --2 has particulars: sweep hand, sweep-second
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