secondary source

American  

[se-kuhnd-eree sawrs] / ˈsɛ kəndˌɛri ˈsɔrs /

noun

1. a description based on a first-hand account, often of a historical event.

2. an analysis of or commentary on a literary work or piece of art.

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Example Sentences

The Labor Department doesn’t send its own staff to survey prices for cars and gasoline, for example; it collects that data from private providers and other secondary sources.

From The Wall Street Journal

To fill the gap in “sealift,” China’s military would lean on a secondary source: civilian ships.

From The Wall Street Journal

Gone are competitive purses because of the lack of a secondary source of income such as casino gambling.

From Los Angeles Times

Although Judt clearly relied on a vast body of primary and secondary sources to write it, most of that stays behind the curtain of his own confident pronouncements about what happened and why.

From New York Times

And so he heads into the past, writing his father’s story using his parents’ love letters as primary texts and corroborating with a host of secondary sources.

From Seattle Times