The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word SECOND
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More clues leading to the result SECOND
- Back in a short while
- Close relative died, clutching European cleric's first ordinal
- Deputy to support Home Rule
- Mo’s back!
- Behind one's back
- This succeeds first time
- Used to give support, at first
- Support about to be given girl not making the top grade
- Nearest the leader for a short time
- Support dispatch commander put in
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What does SECOND mean?
SECOND noun- Something that is number two in a series.
- Something that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority.
- The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest.
- (usually in the plural) A manufactured item that, though still usable, fails to meet quality control standards.
- (usually in the plural) An additional helping of food.
- A chance or attempt to achieve what should have been done the first time, usually indicating success this time around. (See second-guess.)
- The interval between two adjacent notes in a diatonic scale (either or both of them may be raised or lowered from the basic scale via any type of accidental).
- The second gear of an engine.
- Second base.
- The agent of a party to an honour dispute whose role was to try to resolve the dispute or to make the necessary arrangements for a duel.
- A Cub Scout appointed to assist the sixer.
- To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (See under #Etymology 3 for translations.)
- To follow in the next place; to succeed.
- To climb after a lead climber.
- Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two.
- Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.
- Being of the same kind as one that has preceded; another.
- (with superlative) After the first; at the second rank.
- After the first occurrence but before the third.
- One-sixtieth of a minute; the SI unit of time, defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of caesium-133 in a ground state at a temperature of absolute zero and at rest.
- A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree.
- A short, indeterminate amount of time.
- One who supports another in a contest or combat, such as a dueller's assistant.
- One who supports or seconds a motion, or the act itself, as required in certain meetings to pass judgement etc.
- Aid; assistance; help.
- To transfer temporarily to alternative employment.
- To assist or support; to back.
- To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (This may come from the English adjective above.)
- To accompany by singing as the second performer.