runner-up

runner-up

See also: runnerup and runner up

English

Alternative forms

• runner up

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌɹʌn.əˈɹʌp/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɹʌn.ɚˈʌp/

Noun

runner-up (plural runners-up or (colloquial, nonstandard) runner-ups)

1. The person who finishes second, or in any position after the first.

   Remember, if the winner cannot complete the duties, the runner-up will take over.

2. Second favourite.
   • 2022 July 11, Kate Conger; Mike Isaac, “How Elon Musk Damaged Twitter and Left It Worse Off”, in The New York Times‎, ISSN 0362-4331:

     For years, Twitter was a runner-up social media company. It never grew to the size and scale of a Facebook or an Instagram. It simply muddled along.

Translations

the person who finishes in any position after the first

Arabic: وَصِيفَة‎ f (waṣīfa) (in beauty contest) Armenian: երկրորդ տեղը գրաված (erkrord tełə gravac) Bulgarian: вицешампион m (vicešampion), подгласник m (podglasnik) Chinese: Mandarin: 亞軍 (zh), 亚军 (zh) (yàjūn), 第二名 (dì'èrmíng) Czech: druhý (cs) v (cs) pořadí (cs) Danish: toer c Dutch: 2de plaats Finnish: kakkonen (fi), toiseksi tullut, toka (fi) (colloquial), perintöprinsessa (fi) (in beauty contest) French: vice-champion (fr) m, vice-championne (fr) f Georgian: მეორე ადგილოსანი (meore adgilosani), მეორე ადგილზე გასული (meore adgilze gasuli) German: Vizemeister (de) m, Vizemeisterin (de) f, Zweitplatzierter (de) m, Zweitplatzierte (de) f, Zweiter (de) m, Zweite (de) f Greek: επιλαχών (el) (epilachón) Hindi: उपविजेता m or m pl or f or f pl (upvijetā) Hungarian: második helyezett, (any finalist) döntős, helyezett (hu) Italian: finalista (it) f, vicecampione (it) m Japanese: 次点者 (じてんしゃ, jitensha), 次点 (ja) (じてん, jiten), 二番 (にばん, niban) Korean: 차점자 (ko) (chajeomja) Maori: tuarua Norwegian: Bokmål: toer (no) m Nynorsk: toar m Polish: wicemistrz Portuguese: segundo colocado m, segundo (pt) m, vice-campeão m Russian: заня́вший второ́е ме́сто m (zanjávšij vtoróje mésto), заня́вшая второ́е ме́сто f (zanjávšaja vtoróje mésto), вице-ми́сс (ru) f (vice-míss) (in a beauty contest) Spanish: subcampeón m, subcampeona f, finalista (es) f, princesa (es) f (in beauty contest), suplente (id) Swedish: tvåa (sv) c Tagalog: napabilang, pangalawang-nabibilang, prinsesa (tl) (in beauty contest) Vietnamese: á quân