second hand

Questions about second hand

What does second hand mean?

second hand means "an intermediate person; used in the phrase `at second hand'". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is second hand a common word?

second hand is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.