0 immediately after the first and before any others:
Is Carla her first or second child?
Today is the second (of March).
First prize is two weeks in Barbados and second prize is a weekend in Rome.
She is often described as a second Marilyn Monroe.
You really should make the most of the opportunity, because you won't get a second chance.
Pay attention to what she's saying because she won't explain it a second time.
We've decided to hold the conference every second year.
1 after the first and before any others:
2 a short unit of time that is equal to a 60th of a minute:
There are 60 seconds in a minute.
These computers process millions of instructions per second.
The new system can trace a phone call in a fraction of a second.
"Come on, hurry up!" "I'll just/only be a second - I need to close the window."
Do you have a second, Paul? I need to talk to you.
It won't take a second (= it will be very quick).
3 the second person or thing to do or be something, or the second person or thing mentioned:
4 the smallest unit used for measuring an angle:
There are 3,600 seconds in a degree.
5 a product that is sold cheaply because it is damaged or not in perfect condition
6 a person who takes care of someone who is fighting in a boxing competition or, in the past, in a duel (= organized fight)
7 in a vehicle, the gear that combines power with limited speed and is used when increasing or reducing speed:
You'll have to change (down/up) into second.
8 an undergraduate degree from a university in the UK and some other countries that is a good degree but not the best possible
9 → second base
10 to make a formal statement of support for a suggestion made by someone else during a meeting so that there can be a discussion or vote:
11 to send an employee to work somewhere else temporarily, either to increase the number of workers or to replace other workers, or to exchange experience or skills:
12 (a person or thing) coming immediately after the first:
13 any of the 60 parts that a minute is divided into:
She won by 22 seconds.
I’ll be back in a second.
14 to make a formal statement of support for a suggestion made by someone else during a meeting in order to allow a discussion or vote:
15 a product that is sold at a lower price than usual because it is damaged or not in perfect condition:
16 to send an employee to work somewhere else temporarily, either to increase the number of workers there, to replace another worker, or to exchange experiences or skills:
be seconded to sth She was seconded to our department five months ago.
17 to make a formal statement of support for a suggestion made by someone else during a meeting so that there can be a discussion or vote:
In the second experiment they obtained a very clear result.
Any half-decent sprinter can run 100 metres in 11 seconds.
The computer takes a few seconds to power up after it's been switched on.
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