second-in-command

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second-in-command (plural seconds-in-command)

  1. Somebody ranking next below a commander.
  2. Someone ranking next below the person in charge.
    • 1951 June, Dr. W. H. Chaloner, “Alexander Allan's Own Claim”, in Railway Magazine, page 416:
      Allan was first William Buddicom's and then Trevithick's second-in-command, at Edge Hill and at Crewe successively, for the period of 13½ years from February, 1840, to September, 1853, when he left Crewe to become Superintendent of the Scottish Central Railway.

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