1. Previously used or owned by another
   "bought a secondhand car";
   - used, pre-owned, second-hand
    
2. Derived from what is primary or original; not firsthand
   "a secondhand account of a memory of something once read"; "most of our knowledge is secondhand"; "a secondhand report";
   - second-hand

1. By indirect means
   "he prefers to buy secondhand"; "I heard about it only secondhand or thirdhand";
   - second-hand

1. Hand marking seconds on a timepiece
   "He watched the second hand tick around the clock face";
   - seconds hand
    
2. An intermediate person; used in the phrase ‘at second hand’
   "he could learn at second hand from books"

1. From a source of previously owned goods
   "I prefer to buy second hand"

Derived forms: seconds hand, second hands

See also: old, secondary

Type of: go-between, hand, intercessor, intermediary, intermediate, intermediator, mediator

Encyclopedia: Secondhand