Meaning of secondhanded | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Secondhand.
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2. Previously owned or used.
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3. Dealing in used goods.
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4. Indirect.
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5. Ersatz.
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Examples

“The clerk studied them. "You could get secondhanded ones for half price," he told Aunt Julina kindly.”

“If the article to which the label or brand is to be attached is secondhanded, the brand or label shall consist of the following: "This mattress (or other article of bedding) is secondhanded and has been sterilized."”

“"Secondhanded goods has chips," said the cobbler stoutly. "That is why they are secondhanded goods.”

“We wore hand-me-downs, hand-me-down again and spruced it up to look good. Didn't look secondhanded or nothing when we finished adding the touch to it.”

“You know, they had these secondhanded stores. Dad went to get me a pair of knee pants, but they'd been here too long!”

“There were furniture stores, but so many of the secondhanded stores carried furniture.”

“I had a nice little half-iron bed painted with some kind of golden bronze paint, and a white dresser and a white chair. Babe bought them at a secondhanded store.”

“We "speak of the things that we have seen," and not as one who offers secondhanded reports.”

“We believe that Peter, James, and John actually did see holy angels—did behold Meses and Elias, and see Jesus transfigured, upon secondhanded testimonies given on the subject.”

“Religion thus enters upon a new phase, a stage wherein it gradually becomes secondhanded; always does a medicine man, a shaman, or a priest intervene between the religionist and the object of worship.”

“I worked strategically to keep myself posted with what I may term a "secondhanded" learning approach. My desperate hunger and thirst for educational nourishment from my pals was intensified.”

“The common error in most architectural schools is that basic design is taught at an abstract level using contemporary artists as examples to go by. This secondhanded process usually produces little Mondrians, Bauers, Gabos, Moores or, if the faculty member has enough to offer, little duplications of himself.”

““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."”

“Other Federalist essayists urged the citizens of North carolina to cultivate an attachment to the national government "as necessary to our general happiness and as the best security against oppression,” while portraying John Adams as the leading figure in the American impulse toward liberty in 1776 and Jefferson as “only a secondhanded varnished Deist."”

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