second-in-command

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Somebody ranking next below a commander.
2. isim 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.”