Adjective
1. of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate;
"the stone will be hauled to a secondary crusher""a secondary source""a secondary issue""secondary streams"2. inferior in rank or status;
"the junior faculty""a lowly corporal""petty officialdom""a subordinate functionary"3. depending on or incidental to what is original or primary;
"a secondary infection"4. not of major importance;
"played a secondary role in world events"5. belonging to a lower class or rank