secondary

Adjective

• belonging to a lower class or rank

• not of major importance
  • played a secondary role in world events
    

• depending on or incidental to what is original or primary
  • a secondary infection
    

• inferior in rank or status
  • the junior faculty
    
  • a lowly corporal
    
  • petty officialdom
    
  • a subordinate functionary
    

• being 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
    

Noun

• coil such that current is induced in it by passing a current through the primary coil

• the defensive football players who line up behind the linemen

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  junior-grade , lower-ranking , lowly , petty(a) , subaltern , secondary coil , secondary winding