secondhanded adjective 5adverb 4 adjective5 •Previously owned or used.The clerk studied them. "You could get secondhanded ones for half price," he told Aunt Julina kindly. — 1949 •Secondhand. •Dealing in used goods.You know, they had these secondhanded stores. Dad went to get me a pair of knee pants, but they'd been here too long! — 1976 •Indirect.We "speak of the things that we have seen," and not as one who offers secondhanded reports. — 1855 •Ersatz.“A grand scale is impersonal, and my thing, as you call it, is real and right here, right now, not some secondhanded satisfaction lording it over the flies." — 2014 adverb4 •In a used condition.If I got it from Mr. Rauh, I would get it secondhanded, or if I got it from you I would get it secondhanded. — 1957 •Secondhand. •IndirectlyWhat I have learned outside of what is written in this secret history regarding town and village government, we shall not here mention as it would be recorded from hearsay or secondhanded. — 1905 •In second place, repeating another.Of course, I think we go secondhanded into most of these conferences anyway, but in this case we would have a definite assurance we would be going in secondhanded. — 1960
