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  1. second-hand

    A second hand good is one purchased by or otherwise transferred to a second or later end-user.

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  1. Second-Hand

    Second-Hand was a 2005 Romanian film directed by Dan Pița.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. second-hand

    A term in fishing-boats to distinguish the second in charge.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of second-hand in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of second-hand in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of second-hand in a Sentence

  1. Joey Reed:

    We want to talk to The President and say,' You're the only man in the world who can bring The President home and you can do it today,' what we were told second hand was that there wasn't enough time.

  2. Derek Abbott:

    Perhaps he was a World War Two black market trader or something like that. And that can explain a number of things. For example, why people possibly didn't come forward to identify him. Because, you know, if he's in with a group of people that are doing something a bit dodgy, they wouldn't want any light shone on their activities, for the clothes, perhaps they were second hand, and in those days you tended to clip off the labels because quite often people wrote on those manufacturers' labels in ink to indicate their name or something.

  3. Ben Hecht:

    Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

  4. Adiah Laelynn Nadarajah:

    They’re definitely miracles, i had challenging feelings, conflicting feelings, seeing how tiny they were on one hand, feeling the joy of seeing two babies on the second hand. I was thinking, ‘how much pain they are in?’ It was so conflicting. They were so tiny.

  5. D. H. Lawrence:

    It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.


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