second-hand
adjective/ˌsekənd ˈhænd/
/ˌsekənd ˈhænd/
- not new; owned by somebody else before
- a second-hand bookshop (= for selling second-hand books)
- (especially British English) second-hand cars
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- (often disapproving) (of news, information, etc.) learned from other people, not from your own experience
- second-hand opinions
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