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second-hand
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
second-hand
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a used/second-hand car (=one that is not new)
▪ The company locates suitable new and used cars for buyers.
second-hand clothes (=not new)
▪ Charity shops sell second-hand clothes at low prices.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
book
▪ I have no use for second-hand books and unfashionable clothes and bits of ornament.
▪ He pauses at a second-hand book store, where the man who waits on him is unlike a tradesman.
▪ Time allowed 00:07 Read in studio Three best-selling writers are backing an appeal by Oxfam for a million second-hand books.
▪ They had second-hand books upstairs too.
▪ He sold second-hand books and rare first editions.
▪ The first two shops sell second-hand books only.
▪ Hay on Wye made its name by dealing in second-hand books.
books
▪ I have no use for second-hand books and unfashionable clothes and bits of ornament.
▪ Time allowed 00:07 Read in studio Three best-selling writers are backing an appeal by Oxfam for a million second-hand books.
▪ They had second-hand books upstairs too.
▪ He sold second-hand books and rare first editions.
▪ The first two shops sell second-hand books only.
▪ Hay on Wye made its name by dealing in second-hand books.
▪ Thanks to Mr Booth, Hay is known the world over for its second-hand books.
bookshop
▪ And a word of warning - when you arrive in Hye-on-Wye beware of the second-hand bookshops.
▪ I started to wander again, in and out of second-hand bookshops, and then into an amusement arcade.
▪ Browse through the second-hand bookshops of Beirut or Jerusalem, however, and the ghosts begin to appear.
▪ As usual I popped into the second-hand bookshops and, as usual, failed to find any old golf books of any interest.
▪ Turn left into Galerie Bortier, a forgotten nineteenth-century arcade occupied by second-hand bookshops.
▪ Thanks to that wonderful institution, known as the second-hand bookshop, such information will guide us to some delightful discoveries.
▪ You can often pick them up in second-hand bookshops.
car
▪ Now its humiliation has been deepened by, of all people, a second-hand car salesman.
▪ For example second-hand car deals are usually contracts for the sale of specific goods.
▪ Mr Fuller, who had been married three times, dealt in second-hand cars and dabbled in property and building.
▪ Clearly selling a second-hand car without an ignition key or registration document would not be acting in the ordinary course of business.
▪ Estate agents rank in public esteem with double-glazing salesmen, second-hand car dealers - behind even politicians and journalists.
▪ This poem is funny because it treats people as if they were second-hand cars for sale.
▪ Clearly, this is a matter of degree especially with an expensive second-hand car.
▪ Perhaps he had had a bad day at the garage and had not sold enough crummy second-hand cars.
clothes
▪ These old shops are still in business today, selling second-hand clothes and materials.
▪ Which is exactly what second-hand clothes are.
▪ The competition set a fairly tight budget so Julia decided to mix second-hand clothes with new ones.
▪ Hence my association with Flip, because they've been doing second-hand clothes for 20 or 30 years.
shop
▪ Yet whether lean times or creative instinct drive customers to second-hand shops, they remain a valuable option.
▪ There were almost more antique and second-hand shops in some of those villages than there were houses.
▪ Many fairly recent objects can be found at home, bought cheaply in second-hand shops or borrowed from local people.
▪ Old fridges and cookers should be taken to second-hand shops or civic-amenity sites to be refurbished instead of dumped.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "Is that table new?" "No, we got it second-hand."
▪ second-hand clothing
▪ Do you know where I can buy a second-hand bicycle?
▪ Max spent the whole afternoon looking around a second-hand book store.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Estate agents rank in public esteem with double-glazing salesmen, second-hand car dealers - behind even politicians and journalists.
▪ For example second-hand car deals are usually contracts for the sale of specific goods.
▪ This outfit specialises in reselling second-hand equipment.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
second-hand

also secondhand, late 15c., from second (adj.) + hand (n.).

Wiktionary
second-hand

a. (alternative spelling of secondhand English)

Usage examples of "second-hand".

La Potherie, Charlevoix, Colden, Smith, and many others, give accounts at second-hand.

Much of the merchandise in the shops is generic dotcom trash, vying for the title of Japanese-Scottish souvenir-from-hell: Puroland tartans, animatronic Nessies hissing bad-temperedly at knee level, second-hand schleptops.

He arranged the head-scan and the ophthalmology examination, and dropped in frequently to discuss the prices of second-hand motor cars, and eat the glace pineapple.

The gum senega, of which a great quantity is used by the manufacturers of England, being wholly in the hands of the enemy, the English dealers were obliged to buy it at second-hand from the Dutch, who purchased it of the French, and exacted an exorbitant price for that commodity.

And he said that Gould sold out for a pair of second-hand government blankets and a bottle of whisky that killed nine men in three hours, and that an unoffending stranger that smelt the cork was disabled for life.

I then spent the remainder of the morning gradually upgrading my entire wardrobe, here purchasing untattered trousers, there a better second-hand coat, in a third place some shoes without holes.

He was therefore accommodated with a second-hand suit and another shirt, and at once listed under the banners of Count Fathom, who spent the whole afternoon in giving him proper instructions for the regulation of his conduct.

I was never suspected, I the uniformed, respectful, grammar-school boy who took his lesser findings to the till and paid without hurry or apparent anxiety and who occasionally bought the cheaper second-hand books from the boxes of miscellanea outside the shop door.

Research Fellowship in psychophysics, a strange couple of years editing train timetables, and managing a second-hand bookshop.

Paris quays, studying their busy life and their picturesque vistas, whenever he was not poring over the second-hand books set out for sale upon their parapets.

He saved up his pocket money and with some help from his father he managed to buy himself a second-hand telescope, a three-inch refractor which was hardly better than a pair of powerful binoculars, but it was a start all the same.

Ikey might be seen, his hands working in the gestures of unctuous trading, in the reeking hubbub of Rosemary Lane doing business among the festoons of second-hand clothes.

She knew how much better it could make a girl feel, even if she was wearing second-hand garments, to have brand new underthings with an embroidered forget-me-knot border to make them special.

Saul had flown into Tel Aviv five hours too late to join the fighting even as a medic, but not too late to hear young Aaron and Isaac tell and re-tell the second-hand exploits of their older brother, Avner, a captain in the Air Force.

One or two pleasant pieces of china and a vast amount of worthless material, an ancient boneshaker and a miscellaneous collection of swords and early sporting guns were heaped upon one another with the profusion of a second-hand shop.