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Definition of third-hand in English: third-handadjective 1(of goods) having had two previous owners. Example sentencesExamples - Brad looked around his extremely messy apartment, filled with third-hand furniture, pizza boxes and scattered personal items.
- The first shop in the precinct is full of third-hand hi-fis, CDs and musical instruments.
- Mine was a dreadful affair with third-hand badges badly sewn on and once I was summoned to see Miss Gillies about it.
- My mother was a widow, I was the eldest of five and my tatty uniform had been bought second or third-hand.
- It might be third-hand with 135,000 miles on the clock, but it's still a nice car.
- The ‘new’ bike, a third-hand ten-speed racer, had been given to Ian's dad by someone he worked with at the new office.
- One by one, his brilliant strategies fell to tatters like the third-hand law books in his shabby office.
2(of information) acquired from or via several intermediate sources and consequently not authoritative or reliable. the accounts are third-hand, told years after the event Example sentencesExamples - I was told by this police officer, who was telling me about a third-hand conversation that no one was supposed to hear about.
- By third-hand account I know of a man for whom model soldiers are a passion.
- Arcesilaus left no writings of his own, so we must rely on second and third-hand reports in order to reconstruct his views.
- You produce, as fact, third-hand accounts from thirty years ago.
- He had heard various second and third-hand reports.
- Assuming this report is true, it's amazing how our top officials put so much trust in a third-hand account by someone they didn't even know.
- There is more fascination in this documentary than in any number of supposedly authoritative historical textbooks written by those only with second- or third-hand experience.
- Meanwhile they continue to publish more third-hand hearsay from the British insurance industry.
- Any experienced historian such as Walsh should know that the third-hand writings of second-hand information taken half a century after an event concluded are dubious at best.
- That evidence was third-hand by the time we heard it and could not effectively be challenged, but it merits investigation.
- It is not an easy task; we often hear second or third-hand information.
- These people base their reality on a set of stories, their hard opinions on fables and third-hand tales, rather than embracing the morality of these stories.
- I'd met few who'd been to the country, and from second and third-hand reports I'd heard, I imagined a strange land of bicycle-avalanches and where vegetarians ate grass.
- So far India has received information about their demands only through second- and third-hand sources.
- That's typical of the news we get from the media: a third-hand subjective slant on an interpretation of a glimpse of a surface flash as seen by a career persona.
- We listen to third-hand hearsay about the woman in the flat below or some friend of a friend currently manning the hospital barricades
- As I say, this report is at least third-hand so it may not be entirely accurate, but it sounds like good news for science-fiction fans.
- The operation was still underway and he was only able to give her a third-hand account of events that were still unfolding.
- The story is third-hand, so the details are a bit vague to me, but basically the CO told some of the soldiers to take the prisoners to the POW camp, and be back in fifteen minutes.
- Seeing as it's a translation of a third-hand account, I don't think I'll be using this quote in my story.
adverb From or via several intermediate sources. I heard about the case third-hand Example sentencesExamples - Two days were set aside to hear from journalists who had not been present on the day but had reported the story third-hand.
- This comes to me third-hand, and its veracity is possibly a bit suspect.
- Most got their ‘evidence’ about Africans and non-Europeans second and third-hand from the actual conquerors and enslavers.
- Issac is certainly talking, although what he is actually saying is uncertain as it is being passed on third-hand and via translation.
- The litigants don't have to worry if their information comes third-hand.
- I keep hearing the medical information third-hand, through a bunch of non-medical people, so this is probably altogether wrong.
Definition of third-hand in US English: third-hand(also thirdhand) adjectiveˌθərdˈhændˌTHərdˈhand 1(of goods) having had two previous owners. Example sentencesExamples - The first shop in the precinct is full of third-hand hi-fis, CDs and musical instruments.
- Mine was a dreadful affair with third-hand badges badly sewn on and once I was summoned to see Miss Gillies about it.
- One by one, his brilliant strategies fell to tatters like the third-hand law books in his shabby office.
- The ‘new’ bike, a third-hand ten-speed racer, had been given to Ian's dad by someone he worked with at the new office.
- It might be third-hand with 135,000 miles on the clock, but it's still a nice car.
- My mother was a widow, I was the eldest of five and my tatty uniform had been bought second or third-hand.
- Brad looked around his extremely messy apartment, filled with third-hand furniture, pizza boxes and scattered personal items.
2(of information) acquired from or via several intermediate sources and consequently not authoritative or reliable. the accounts are third-hand, told years after the event Example sentencesExamples - Meanwhile they continue to publish more third-hand hearsay from the British insurance industry.
- Seeing as it's a translation of a third-hand account, I don't think I'll be using this quote in my story.
- That's typical of the news we get from the media: a third-hand subjective slant on an interpretation of a glimpse of a surface flash as seen by a career persona.
- I was told by this police officer, who was telling me about a third-hand conversation that no one was supposed to hear about.
- I'd met few who'd been to the country, and from second and third-hand reports I'd heard, I imagined a strange land of bicycle-avalanches and where vegetarians ate grass.
- Any experienced historian such as Walsh should know that the third-hand writings of second-hand information taken half a century after an event concluded are dubious at best.
- The story is third-hand, so the details are a bit vague to me, but basically the CO told some of the soldiers to take the prisoners to the POW camp, and be back in fifteen minutes.
- By third-hand account I know of a man for whom model soldiers are a passion.
- He had heard various second and third-hand reports.
- It is not an easy task; we often hear second or third-hand information.
- We listen to third-hand hearsay about the woman in the flat below or some friend of a friend currently manning the hospital barricades
- You produce, as fact, third-hand accounts from thirty years ago.
- The operation was still underway and he was only able to give her a third-hand account of events that were still unfolding.
- There is more fascination in this documentary than in any number of supposedly authoritative historical textbooks written by those only with second- or third-hand experience.
- As I say, this report is at least third-hand so it may not be entirely accurate, but it sounds like good news for science-fiction fans.
- So far India has received information about their demands only through second- and third-hand sources.
- Arcesilaus left no writings of his own, so we must rely on second and third-hand reports in order to reconstruct his views.
- These people base their reality on a set of stories, their hard opinions on fables and third-hand tales, rather than embracing the morality of these stories.
- That evidence was third-hand by the time we heard it and could not effectively be challenged, but it merits investigation.
- Assuming this report is true, it's amazing how our top officials put so much trust in a third-hand account by someone they didn't even know.
adverbˌθərdˈhændˌTHərdˈhand From or via several intermediate sources. I heard about the case thirdhand Example sentencesExamples - Issac is certainly talking, although what he is actually saying is uncertain as it is being passed on third-hand and via translation.
- I keep hearing the medical information third-hand, through a bunch of non-medical people, so this is probably altogether wrong.
- Most got their ‘evidence’ about Africans and non-Europeans second and third-hand from the actual conquerors and enslavers.
- Two days were set aside to hear from journalists who had not been present on the day but had reported the story third-hand.
- The litigants don't have to worry if their information comes third-hand.
- This comes to me third-hand, and its veracity is possibly a bit suspect.
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