- 1not new; owned by someone else before secondhand cars a secondhand bookshop (= for selling secondhand books)
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- 2(often disapproving) (of news, information, etc.) learned from other people, not from your own experience secondhand opinions
I bought the camera secondhand. I only heard about it secondhand. compare firsthand
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