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"secondary" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often incidental (10 letters).
Definitions
belonging to a lower class or rank
Word origin
From Middle English secundarie, from Latin secundārius (“of the second class or quality”), from secundus (whence the English second) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary), equivalent to second + -ary; compare the French secondaire, the Italian secondario, the Occitan secundari, the Portuguese secundario, and the Spanish secundario.
Used in a sentence
“the work of secondary hands”
“secondary cleavage”
“Bright's disease is often secondary to scarlet fever.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
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