first-string
[ furst-string ]
/ ˈfɜrstˈstrɪŋ /
adjective
composed of regular members, participants, etc. (distinguished from substitute): the first-string team. foremost; main: the first-string critics.
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Origin of first-string
First recorded in 1915–20
OTHER WORDS FROM first-string
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Words related to first-string
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exceptional,
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good,
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neat How to use first-string in a sentence
Fluoride first entered an American water supply through a rather inelegant technocratic scheme.
In the first episode, an officer is shown video of himself shooting and killing a man.
But since those rosy scenarios were first floated, the California political scene has grown more crowded.
Eric Garcetti succeeded Villaraigosa and has received high marks in his first year and a half on the job.
He sees himself as the first Muslim president of all Europe.
This is the first and principal point at which we can stanch the wastage of teaching energy that now goes on.
He was converted and baptized, and was the first Hebrew instructor at Harvard college.
And I have not had the first morsel of food prepared from this grain offered me since I reached the shores of Europe.
Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.
In treble, second and fourth, the first change is a dodge behind; and the second time the treble leads, there's a double Bob.
British Dictionary definitions for first-string
noun
the top player of a team in an individual sport, such as squash
adjective first-string
being a regular member of a team rather than a substitute or reserve
being the top player of a team in an individual sport
of high rating; first-class
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