Usually means: Deputy with significant authority, responsibility.
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  1. second in command: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. second-in-command: Merriam-Webster
  3. second-in-command: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. second-in-command, second-in-command: Collins English Dictionary
  5. second-in-command: Vocabulary.com
  6. second-in-command: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. second-in-command, second in command: Wiktionary
  8. second-in-command: Dictionary.com
  9. Second-in-Command, Second in Command, Second-in-command, The Second in Command: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. second-in-command: Rhymezone
  11. second-in-command: FreeDictionary.org
  12. second-in-command: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. second-in-command: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Second in command)

▸ noun:  Alternative spelling of second-in-command [Somebody ranking next below a commander.]

Similar:
runner up, runnerup, second rate, second-guesser, sous chef, SSgt., co-worker, second-story man, headcoach, Scoutmaster, more...

Opposite:
first in command, leader, superior

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Similar:
runner up, runnerup, second rate, second-guesser, sous chef, SSgt., co-worker, second-story man, headcoach, Scoutmaster, more...

Opposite:
first in command, leader, superior



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