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2IC

2IC is the initialism of second-in-command.

Meaning of second-in-command

Noun

second-in-command (plural seconds-in-command)

  1. Somebody ranking next below a commander.
  2. Someone ranking next below the person in charge.
    • Allan was first William Buddicom's and then Trevithick's second-in-command, at Edge Hill and at Crewe successively, for the period of 13½ years from February, 1840, to September, 1853, when he left Crewe to become Superintendent of the Scottish Central Railway.1951 June, Dr. W. H. Chaloner, “Alexander Allan's Own Claim”, in Railway Magazine, page 416
    Synonyms:
    number two

Questions about 2IC

What is 2IC the initialism of?
2IC is the initialism of second-in-command.

Words near 2IC in the dictionary

  1. 2GL
  2. 2GLs
  3. 2H
  4. 2Hs
  5. 2hu
  6. 2IC
  7. 2L
  8. 2Ls
  9. 2mad
  10. 2mads
  11. 2MASS

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Adapted from Wiktionary: 2IC (page history and authors); second-in-command (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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