Second Hand

Definitions: Second Hand

Second Hand

Adverb

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

Noun

1. An intermediate person; used in the phrase "at second hand"; "he could learn at second hand from books".

2. Hand marking seconds on a timepiece.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Occupations

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: Second Hand

German (second hand).

Second hand smoke is the most dangerous kind! (High Society; writing credit: Lisa Albert; Pat Dougherty)

The second hand smoke is as good as the first. (Viva Variety; writing credit: Michael Ian Black; Ben Garant)

What's love but a second hand emotion ("What's Love Got to Do With It"; performing artist: Tina Turner)

Second Hand Husband (1934)

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Books

• Second Hand Dog : How To Turn Yours Into A first Rate Pet (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Luke Weldon, small farmer, and his son using ancient Buick (transformed by cutting down the chassis) as improvised tractor. Automobile bought in second hand car lot. Cost fifteen dollars. New Bridgetown, New Jersey.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Business

There is a small market in second hand equipment. (references)

Dental equipment repair services frequently deal in second hand equipment. (references)

Imported cars comprise only 7-8% of the total volume of sales in Uzbekistan and they are mainly second hand cars of D and E classes. (references)

Economic History

Latvia

Best prospects for U.S. exports are saw mill equipment, woodworking machinery, plant technologies and training and pulp and paper mills (new and second hand). (references)

Trade

India

Second Hand Goods: All second hand goods are restricted for imports and may be imported only in accordance with the provisions of the Policy. (references)

India

A steep (effectively 180 percent) import duty on second hand motor vehicles and two wheelers, tea coffee, crude and refined edible oil was introduced to restrict imports and protect domestic industry. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "second hand": At second hand ♦ second hand items ♦ the second hand of a watch. Additional references.

Albanian

së dyti, i vjetruar (antiquated, back number, dated, decrepit, dilapidated, disreputable, fusty, moldy, moth-eaten, mouldy, napless, obsolete, old hat, out of date, outdated, outworn, overage, rusty, seasoned, superannuated, threadbare, time worn, worm-eaten), i përdorur (exhausted, used, waste). (various references)

Arabic 

‏يد ثانية, ‏مستعمل (applied, exercised, used, utilized), ‏غير أولي, ‏عقرب الثواني في الساعة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

употребяван (used), секундарник, чрез посредник (at second hand), вехтошарски, от втора ръка, оказионен, непряк (indirect, mediate, oblique, remote). (various references)

Czech

z druhé ruky (at second hand, used), použitý (spent, used), antikvární. (various references)

Danish

special sekundviser (special second hand), special centrumsekundviser (special centre second hand), skelet-centrum-sekundviser med paanittet roer og lysfarve (riveted cannon luminous skeleton centre second hand), sekundviser med trukket roer (pressed cannon second hand), sekundviser med paanittet roer (riveted cannon second hand), massiv centrum-sekundviser med paanittet roer (riveted cannon solid centre second hand), lakeret skelet-centrum-sekundviser med trukket roer (pressed cannon varnished skeleton centre second hand), lakeret centrum-sekundviser med paanittet roer (riveted cannon varnished skeleton centre second hand), ekstra-sekundviser (additional second hand), antikvarboghandler (dealer in old and second-hand books, second hand bookseller), antikvar (dealer in old and second-hand books, second hand bookseller). (various references)

Dutch

tweedehands (secondhand). (various references)

Esperanto

brokanta (secondhand). (various references)

French

trotteuse, d'occasion (secondhand), de seconde main (secondhand), aiguille des secondes. (various references)

German

getragen (beared, borne, carried, hand-me-downs, languorous, majestic, plangent, stately, wore, worn), gebraucht (hand-me-downs, second-hand, soiled, used, uses), aus zweiter Hand (secondhand, second-hand). (various references)

Greek 

έμμεσοσ (circumstantial, collateral, indirect, roundabout), μεταχειρισμένοσ (used). (various references)

Hebrew 

משומש (secondhand, used, worn). (various references)

Hungarian

másodpercmutató (second hand of a watch). (various references)

Indonesian

bekas (ex, formertrace, print, remnant). (various references)

Italian

usato (in use, old, used, uses, worn), di seconda mano. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�'針 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

びょうし�" (ill health, weak constitution). (various references)

Manx

aalaue. (various references)

Pig Latin

econdsay andhay

Portuguese

segunda mão, usado (old age, trite, used, well worn, worn), que não é original, não novo (used), de segunda mão (secondhand). (various references)

Russian 

подержанный (hand-me-down, secondhand, second-hand, seconds hand, used). (various references)

Spanish

segunda mano, de segunda mano (reach-me-down, secondhand). (various references)

Swedish

sekundvisare, i andra hand, gammal (ancient, antique, elderly, hoary, long standing, longtime, old, old hat, olden, old-established, shaky, stale, well-established), begagnad (second-hand, used, worn out), antikvarisk (antiquarian), andrahands-. (various references)

Turkish

saniye ibresi. (various references)

Ukranian 

уживаний, секундна стрілка, запозичений (adopted, unoriginal), посередник (agent, ambassador, broker, come between, daysman, fixer, go between, in between, intercessor, intermediary, intermediate, intermedium, mediator, middleman, moderator, negotiator, stakeholder, stickler, umpire), другорозрядний. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: secondhand.

-3 letters: acnodes, ancones, chanson, coheads, deacons, hoddens, noncash, scanned, shodden, sonance.

-4 letters: acnode, ancone, anodes, ascend, canned, canoed, canoes, canons, cashed, chased, chosen, codens, cohead, conned, coshed, dadoes, danced, dances, dashed, deacon, dedans, desand, donnas, donned, encash, hances, handed, hennas, hodads, hodden, honans, hondas, naches, nachos, nances, nonces, noshed, oceans, sadden, sanded, second.

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