Usually means: Trusted assistant, closest confidant, indispensable.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. right-hand man: Merriam-Webster
  2. right-hand man: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. right-hand man, right-hand man: Collins English Dictionary
  4. right-hand man: Vocabulary.com
  5. right-hand man: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. right-hand man: Wiktionary
  7. right-hand man: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. right-hand man: Dictionary.com
  9. right-hand man: Rhymezone
  10. right-hand man: FreeDictionary.org
  11. right-hand man: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. right-hand man: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. right-hand man: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. right-hand man: Medical dictionary

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  1. right-hand man: Idioms

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▸ noun:  A trusted assistant.

Similar:
man Friday, chief assistant, coadjutant, adjutant, adjutor, number two, handler, yeoman, coadjutor, adjoint, more...

Opposite:
left-hand man, second-in-command, subordinate

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Similar:
man Friday, chief assistant, coadjutant, adjutant, adjutor, number two, handler, yeoman, coadjutor, adjoint, more...

Opposite:
left-hand man, second-in-command, subordinate



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