second string

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   a squad of players that are available either individually or as a team to relieve or replace the players who started the game

   Broaderteam

Questions about second string

What does second string mean?

second string means "a squad of players that are available either individually or as a team to relieve or replace the players who started the game".

Is second string a common word?

second 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.