secondhand — قاموس الإنجليزية

صفة

1. Not new; previously owned and used by another.

   الاستعمال

   • not-comparable
   • of goods

   مرادفات

   usedprelovedpre-ownedhand-me-down

2. Dealing in such merchandise.

   الاستعمال

   • not-comparable
   • of a dealer

3. Indirect; from a secondary source; not firsthand.

   الاستعمال

   • مجازي
   • not-comparable

   أمثلة

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   In the light of recent history it is somewhat curious that this decisive power of the professional secondhand dealers in ideas should not yet be more generally recognized.

   What's love got to do, got to do with it? / What's love but a secondhand emotion?

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   So nearly every name comes from a second hand source. The exception to this rule has been the vigilantes themselves. Rube Mathis and Jack Wells, both admitted to participating, and Mathis identified his brother.

   However, Partridge’s information is second-hand, and requires verification.

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   The relation of Tristram's death is thus distanced from the narrative to which it belongs, and it is also distanced in that we do not see it happen with our own eyes, but hear of it by a second-hand report which introduces it incidentally, not for its own sake.

4. Inhaled from the air near someone else smoking.

   الاستعمال

   • not-comparable
   • of cigarette or cigar smoke

   أمثلة

   exposure to secondhand smoke from cigarette-smoking colleagues

اسم

1. Secondhand goods (especially clothes) collectively.

   الاستعمال

   • غير معدود

   أمثلة

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   Childrenswear is now the fastest growing sector of secondhand. […] The huge increase in the market for childrenswear shows another way in which older generations are getting into secondhand.

ظرف

1. In a used or previously-owned condition.

   الاستعمال

   • not-comparable

   أمثلة

   It was almost an article of faith with McEwen never to buy new if he could buy secondhand.

   He glanced back at the Jeep, which he'd bought secondhand a dozen years ago and now, fifteen years old, was gaining on "classic" status.

2. Indirectly.

   الاستعمال

   • not-comparable

صفة

1. derived from what is primary or original; not firsthand

   أمثلة

   a secondhand report

   a secondhand account of a memory of something once read

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   most of our knowledge is secondhand

2. previously used or owned by another

   مرادفات

   used

   أمثلة

   bought a secondhand (or used) car

ظرف

1. by indirect means

   أمثلة

   I heard about it only secondhand or thirdhand

   he prefers to buy secondhand