first string
[adjective]
Synonyms: excellent, capital, famous, first-class, first-rate, five-star, prime, superior, top, top-notch

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ˌfirst-ˈstring adjective [only before noun]
a first-string player in a team plays when the game begins because they are the most skilled ⇒ second-string

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first string
[American, informal]
the group of people who are regularly chosen to play in the best sports team, or to do the most important work in a job.
He didn't make first string on the football team until his senior year at college.

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first-string
[American, informal]
the first string - the group of people who are regularly chosen to play in the best sports team, or to do the most important work in a job.
She's a first-string reporter on the paper.

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first string
n., informal
1. The best group of players on a team; first team; A team.
Dick loved basketball and practiced hard until he was put on the first string.
2. The best group of workers.
Tom learned his trade so well that his boss soon called him one of his first string.

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first string
adj., informal
1. On the starting team or A team.
He was the first-string quarterback.
2. Of the best quality; foremost.
He was the least expensive of the city's first-string lawyers.

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