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a person or team that finishes second in a race or competition: Madison is the Eastern Region champion and last year’s state runner-up. (Definition of runner-up from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of runner-up. runner-up.
The meaning of RUNNER-UP is the competitor that does not win first place in a contest; especially : one that finishes in second place. How to use runner-up in a sentence.
runners-up, the competitors who do not win a contest but who place ahead of the majority of the contestants and share in prizes or honors, as those who place second, third, and fourth, or in the top ten.
a person or team that finishes second in a race or competition; a person or team that has not finished first but that wins a prize. Winner: Kay Hall. Runner-up: Chris Platts. They finished runners-up behind Sweden. The runners-up will all receive a £50 prize. Wordfinder. Extra Examples. Topics Sports: other sports c1. Oxford Collocations Dictionary
In a competition, the runner-up is usually the person who comes in second place. In the Olympics, an athlete who wins a silver medal can be called a runner-up. In beauty pageants, there are often first, second, and third-place winners, followed by a runner-up.
a person or team that finishes second in a race or competition: Madison is the Eastern Region champion and last year’s state runner-up. (Definition of runner-up from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of runner-up. runner-up.
A runner-up is someone who has finished in second place in a race or competition. The ten runners-up will receive a book token. ...Paul Azinger, the American who was runner-up to Faldo at Muirfield in 1987.