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Definition of second in command in English: second in commandnoun The officer next in authority to the commanding or chief officer. Example sentencesExamples - He and his second in command then abandoned their army, leaving Grant's friend Buckner to surrender to him.
- For the position of the leader, James would automatically hold the chair, and he would pick his own second in command.
- Santa Anna was captured and wrote out orders for his second in command to take the rest of his army out of Texas.
- It is difficult to see Robinson as anything other than a second in command, a loyal lieutenant who fulfils his master's wishes.
- I was still looking shocked as I dialed a phone number, not Stallings, but his second in command.
Synonyms deputy, number two, subordinate, assistant, right-hand man/woman, wingman, vice-, understudy, lieutenant, adjutant, subaltern informal sidekick
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