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Meaning of second unit | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

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

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

second violin second violinist second virginity Second War second wave second wind