Usually means: Previously owned by someone else.
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  1. second-hand, second-hand: Collins English Dictionary
  2. Second-Hand, Second-hand, second-hand: Wordnik
  3. second-hand: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. second-hand: Wiktionary
  5. Second-hand: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Second-hand, second-hand: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. second-hand: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  8. Second-hand: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  9. second-hand: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  Alternative spelling of secondhand [(of goods) Not new; previously owned and used by another.]

Similar:
shop-worn, time-worn, shopsoiled, old-hat, cliched, oftused, off-hand, on-hand, onhand, handheld, more...

Opposite:
brand new, firsthand, pristine, unused

Types:
used, pre-owned, pre-loved, more...

Phrases:
second-hand smoke, second-hand speech, second-hand store, second-hand smoking, more...



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Similar:
shop-worn, time-worn, shopsoiled, old-hat, cliched, oftused, off-hand, on-hand, onhand, handheld, more...

Opposite:
brand new, firsthand, pristine, unused

Types:
used, pre-owned, pre-loved, more...

Phrases:
second-hand smoke, second-hand speech, second-hand store, second-hand smoking, more...



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