second unit

noun

A separate team that shoots footage that is of secondary importance for the final cut of the motion picture, as opposed to first unit.

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Meanings

nounsecond unit (plural second units)

plural second units

  1. broadcastingA separate team that shoots footage that is of secondary importance for the final cut of the motion picture, as opposed to first unit.

    It is the apotheosis of what we in modern sport are obliged to call “plotlines”, and if Leni Riefenstahl were still alive, I imagine she’d be shooting second unit on it.

    2024 March 5, Marina Hyde, “It’s the Christian Horner paradox: F1 is now hideously dull, but the drama has never been better”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
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APA

second unit. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/second%20unit

MLA

“second unit.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/second%20unit. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “second unit,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/second%20unit.

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