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the defensive football players who line up behind the linemen belonging to a lower class or rank subordinate not of major importance; "played a secondary role in world events" minor of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate; "the stone will be hauled to a secondary crusher"; "a secondary source"; "a secondary issue"; "secondary streams" alternate, auxiliary, collateral, indirect, secondhand, second-string, standby, tributary, utility(a), vicarious, thirdhand depending on or incidental to what is original or primary; "a secondary infection" incidental coil such that current is induced in it by passing a current through the primary coil inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary" junior |
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