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second string
noun
- Sports. the squad of players available either individually or as a team to replace or relieve those who start a game.
- a secondary position, status, or group, as in a level of corporate management.
second string
noun
- an alternative course of action, etc, intended to come into use should the first fail (esp in the phrase a second string to one's bow )
- a substitute or reserve player or team
adjective
- sport
- being a substitute player
- being the second-ranked player of a team in an individual sport
- second-rate or inferior
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Other Words From
- second-string adjective
- second-stringer noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of second string1
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Example Sentences
True, she was only a second-string nominee, after Tom Daschle had to bow out because of those tax problems.
A modest salary, and the Heisman-worthy running back should make the same as the pine-riding second-string punter.
But for all the advantages Assad has handed to them, they cannot dislodge his second-string units from the city.
He took me from a second-string team and gave me a chance to make good on the Giants.
Driscolls firm for starting with a second-string line, but I dont like it.
Any second-string fellow that looks as if he was being held back?
I suppose Driscoll wants to bring him around for second-string man.
Nor was it the second-string outfit of the Moguls that would come.
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