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单词 second in command
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second in command
d. Military. second in command: holding a position only subordinate to the chief commander of an army or one of its subdivisions. Often absol. quasi-n.
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under-commander1617
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1776 W. Howe Let. 7 June in 9th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (rev. ed.) App. iii. 35 in Parl. Papers 1910 (Cd. 5038) XXXV. 675 The seniority of his rank..would have placed him second in command in Canada had he not been previously employed to the southward.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. iv. iii. 219 Poor Commandant Gouvion, watching at the Tuileries, second in National Command, sees several things hard to interpret.
1882 Manch. Guard. 6 Sept. 5 Baker Pasha will be appointed second in command and ‘adjoint’ of the Turkish Commander in-Chief.
1939 ‘C. S. Forester’ Captain Hornblower xvi. 173 On his first commission his second-in-command had taken advantages of lapses on his part.
1982 Observer 16 Apr. 14/6 His second-in-command is a Sierra Leonean major.
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