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Noun, Suru verb
1. being the runner-up; finishing secondSports, sometimes written as "準V"
Wikipedia definition
2. Runner-upA runner-up is a participant who finishes in second place in any of a variety of competitive endeavors, most notably sporting events and beauty pageants; in the latter instance, the term is applied to more than one of the highest-ranked non-winning contestants, the second-place finisher being designated "first runner-up", the third-place finisher "second runner-up", and so on.
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