secondhand — İngilizce Sözlük

Sıfat

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

   Kullanım

   • not-comparable
   • of goods

   Eş anlamlı sözcükler

   usedprelovedpre-ownedhand-me-down

2. Dealing in such merchandise.

   Kullanım

   • not-comparable
   • of a dealer

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

   Kullanım

   • mecaz
   • not-comparable

   Örnekler

   Diğer örnekler (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?

   Diğer örnekler (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.

   Diğer örnekler (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.

   Kullanım

   • not-comparable
   • of cigarette or cigar smoke

   Örnekler

   exposure to secondhand smoke from cigarette-smoking colleagues

İsim

1. Secondhand goods (especially clothes) collectively.

   Kullanım

   • sayılamaz

   Örnekler

   Diğer örnekler (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.

Zarf

1. In a used or previously-owned condition.

   Kullanım

   • not-comparable

   Örnekler

   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.

   Kullanım

   • not-comparable

Sıfat

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

   Örnekler

   a secondhand report

   a secondhand account of a memory of something once read

   Diğer örnekler (1)

   most of our knowledge is secondhand

2. previously used or owned by another

   Eş anlamlı sözcükler

   used

   Örnekler

   bought a secondhand (or used) car

Zarf

1. by indirect means

   Örnekler

   I heard about it only secondhand or thirdhand

   he prefers to buy secondhand