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second string - definition and meaning
second string
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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The group of players that substitute for the starting players or from which substitute players are drawn on a sports team.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun sports A
unit ofplayers which is considered to have asecondary level of talent and which usually plays after thefirst string . - adjective idiomatic Not as good; of a lower
quality orcondition .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a squad of players that are available either individually or as a team to relieve or replace the players who started the game
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Words with the same meaning
- agent
- alternate
- alternative
- analogy
- back seat
- backup
- cast
- change
- changeling
- common
- company
- comparison
- complement
- copy
- counterfeit
- crew
- demeaning
- deputy
- disadvantaged
- double
- dummy
- eight
- eleven
- equal
- equivalent
- ersatz
- exchange
- fake
- fill-in
- first string
- first team
- five
- ghost
- ghostwriter
- humble
- humbleness
- humility
- imitation
- in the shade
- inferior
- inferiority
- infra dig
- junior
- junior varsity
- juniority
- less
- lesser
- locum tenens
- low
- lower
- lowliness
- lowly
- makeshift
- metaphor
- metonymy
- minor
- minority
- modest
- next best thing
- nine
- ordinary
- personnel
- phony
- pinch hitter
- platoon
- proxy
- relief
- replacement
- representative
- reserves
- ringer
- rowing crew
- second fiddle
- second rank
- second team
- secondariness
- secondary
- servile
- servility
- sign
- spares
- squad
- stand-in
- string
- sub
- subaltern
- subject
- subjection
- subordinacy
- subordinate
- subordination
- subservience
- subservient
- substituent
- substitute
- substitution
- succedaneum
- superseder
- supplanter
- surrogate
- symbol
- synecdoche
- team
- third rank
- third string
- token
- underprivileged
- understudy
- utility player
- varsity
- vicar
- vice-president
- vice-regent
- vulgar
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