employed vs secondhanded

employed

adj

  • Used; in use. 

  • In a job; working. 

secondhanded

adj

  • Previously owned or used. 

  • Indirect. 

  • Ersatz. 

  • Dealing in used goods. 

adv

  • Indirectly 

  • In second place, repeating another. 

  • In a used condition. 

How often have the words employed and secondhanded occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )