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Second-in-command

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Noun
  1. 1
    Somebody ranking next below a commander.
  2. 2
    someone who relieves a commander wordnet
  3. 3
    Someone ranking next below the person in charge.

    "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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