second in command's Usage Examples:

A second in command to a premier is designated as a vice-premier or deputy premier.

Stringer Bell, his second in command, insulates Barksdale from law enforcement and potential enemies.

Flangini turned to support his second in command, and at the same time the wind turned to the west, putting him to windward.

southern Nevada The LVMPD is led by the sheriff; second in command is the undersheriff, who is assisted by four assistant sheriffs.

the second in command when the Djinn race takes over the world, or to be cast down to another dimension of Hell.

mission or deputy chief of mission (DCM) as the primary title for the second in command of a diplomatic mission.

Official editorials attacked Liu Shaoqi, Mao’s former second in command, for detesting the Boxers, and called upon the Red Guards to carry on the spirit of the.

Akiyama Nobutomo – Takeda's second in command; granted more autonomy.

comprises eight soldiers led by a corporal with a lance corporal as second in command.

Sergeant Finch was second in command of the pom-poms and Lewis gun in the foretop of HMS Vindictive.

In the summer of 1943 Germans managed to hunt down and kill Kovpak's second in command Semyon Rudnev who was replaced by a new right-hand man Petro Vershigora who would later become a writer and dedicate his books to Kovpak's underground resistance.

(NBSAE) (1949–1952) and named for Valter Schytt, second in command and glaciologist of NBSAE.

Synonyms:

direction, commandment, order, behest, bidding, dictation, commission, speech act, charge, countermand, open sesame, injunction, bid,

Antonyms:

antinode, node, end, beginning, middle,