first-string

1. 1.

   of members of a team; not substitutes

   Similarregular
2. 2.

   being a regular member of a team

   “first-string players”

   Similarprimary

Questions about first-string

What does first-string mean?

first-string means "of members of a team; not substitutes". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in first-string?

first-string has 2 syllables: first--string. The stress falls on "first-".

Is first-string a common word?

first-string is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.