seconder

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Each candidate needed the support of at least 10 MPs to get on to the ballot, including a proposer and seconder.

From BBC • Sep. 4, 2024

Leadership candidates need the support of eight fellow Tory MPs - a proposer, a seconder and six others.

From BBC • Jan. 25, 2022

The era of American domination is over, declared Ian Poulter this week, and he found a seconder for that motion in Nick Faldo, the last Englishman to win an Open.

From The Guardian • Jul. 14, 2010

Reason: "The country's best economic and spiritual welfare," Alfred Jacques, Duluth Democrat, a seconder of Woodrow Wilson's nomination in 1912.

From Time Magazine Archive

My mother pictured a daughter as a counterinsurgent: a fellow lover of lapdogs, a seconder of proposals to attend the Ice Capades.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides