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second string

–noun
1. Sports. the squad of players available either individually or as a team to replace or relieve those who start a game.
2. a secondary position, status, or group, as in a level of corporate management.

Origin:
1635–45 in sense “backup, resort,” alluding to a second bowstring; 1860–65, applied to racehorses; 1950–55, to sports teams


second-string, adjective
second-stringer, noun
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