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Synonyms for second

more

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  • more
  • second helpings
  • a second helping
  • a further helping

imperfect goods

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  • imperfect goods
  • rejects
  • faulty goods
  • inferior goods
  • defective goods
  • flawed goods

support

second to none

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moment

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Synonyms for second

a person who holds a position auxiliary to another and assumes some of the superior's responsibilities

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Synonyms for second

the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the second of the bases in the infield

following the first in an ordering or series

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a 60th part of a minute of arc

the official attendant of a contestant in a duel or boxing match

a speech seconding a motion

the gear that has the second lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle

merchandise that has imperfections

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give support or one's approval to

transfer an employee to a different, temporary assignment

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coming next after the first in position in space or time or degree or magnitude

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a part or voice or instrument or orchestra section lower in pitch than or subordinate to the first

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in the second place

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The Seconders are the very ones who complain about social housing - it lowers the tone and value of the neighbourhood.
A full bench headed by Justice Mamoon Rashid Sheikh reserved verdict on multiple identical petitions on a point whether a voter could become proposer or seconder to a candidate from other constituency.
He said also sacked were five members who stood as their proposers and seconders.
Sindh Chief Minister proposed Mola Bux Chandio for Senate election while his seconder was provincial minister Mumtaz Jakhrani.
A presidential aspirant has to obtain 50 nominations, with each needing one proposer and five seconders. All of them must be branch chairmen.
Proposers, seconders and nominees must all be financial or life members of the ACF and each nomination must be accompanied by an UP to 200 word supporting statement.
According to Rule 3 of the Presidential Election Rules of 1988, all nomination papers should be accompanied by attested copies of identity cards of proposers and the seconders issued by the Senate, National Assembly or, as the case may be, provincial assembly secretariats.
The Speaker will scrutinize the nomination papers in the presence of candidates or their proposers and seconders. Election for the office will be held tomorrow, for which the session of the National Assembly has been summoned at three thirty in the afternoon.
He said that the candidates, their election agents, the proposers, seconders, another person authorised in this behalf by each candidate and a voter who had filed an objection might attend the scrutiny of nomination papers.
The candidates with their proposers seconders entered the hall at exactly 9am after the election commission returning officer Mohamad Ali Sebra announced the nomination process is open at 9am.
Under the party constitution, a presidential aspirant needs 300 nominations, with each nomination needing a proposer and five seconders, to be eligible to contest.
Appeals of MQM-P candidate Akram for PS-122 and Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) candidate Munawar Raza for NA-250 were also rejected as their proposers and seconders did not belong to the respective constituencies.
Meanwhile, in the SK Bukit Damansara, Segambut candidates Hannah Yeoh from PH, Datuk Loga Bala Mohan from BN and Mohd Solleh Abd Razak from PAS made their way to the nomination centre accompanied by their respective proposers and seconders.
The chief minister led the PPP-backed candidates, their proposers and seconders for filing nomination papers for the Senate election.
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah led the PPP candidates, their proposers, and seconders for filing the nomination papers for the Senate election at the Election Commission of Pakistan's office in Karachi.