runner-up finish

1. 1.

   a finish in second place (as in a race)

   Synonymssecond-place finish

   Broaderfinish

Questions about runner-up finish

What does runner-up finish mean?

runner-up finish means "a finish in second place (as in a race)".

What is another word for runner-up finish?

Close synonyms include second-place finish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is runner-up finish a common word?

runner-up finish 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.