1. secondhand - Noun
2. secondhand - Adjective
3. secondhand - Adverb
4. secondhand - Adjective Satellite
Not original or primary; received from another.
Not new; already or previously or used by another; as, a secondhand book, garment.
Source: Webster's dictionaryLet us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all. Mark Twain
In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams. Carlos Ruiz Zafón
I got a job as soon as I could - 11 or 12. I started babysitting and then I got a part-time job at a pharmacy in England. I just remember loving the feeling of going out and buying my own clothes! I'd go bargain-hunting and get secondhand vintage stuff. Natasha Bedingfield
It occurs to you that Ulysses is about cliché. It is about inherited, ready-made formulations - most notably Irish Catholicism and anti-Semitism. After all, prejudices are clichés: they are secondhand hatreds... Joyce never uses a cliché in innocence. Martin Amis
Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence. James Surowiecki
The best approach to this cultural revolution is therefore through family and household, i.e. through the structure of relations between the secondhand generations. In most societies this had been impressively resistant to sudden change, though this does not mean that such structures were static. Eric Hobsbawm