secondhand
About 0.73 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Not new; previously owned and used by another.
- adjective Dealing in such merchandise.
- adjective Indirect; from a secondary source; not firsthand.
- adjective Inhaled from the air near someone else smoking.
exposure to secondhand smoke from cigarette-smoking colleagues
- noun Secondhand goods (especially clothes) collectively.
- adverb In a used or previously-owned condition.
- adverb Indirectly.
Similar words
secondary used old second-hand indirect passive inre firsthand nonnew unused
Often followed by
smoke clothes clothing and information stores store car from
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