next-to-last

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Adj.	1.	next-to-last - next to the last; "the author inadvertently reveals the murderer in the penultimate chapter"; "the figures in the next-to-last column" penultimate intermediate - lying between two extremes in time or space or state; "going from sitting to standing without intermediate pushes with the hands"; "intermediate stages in a process"; "intermediate stops on the route"; "an intermediate range plane"
	2.	next-to-last - used of the third or next to final year in United States high school or college; "the junior class"; "a third-year student" third-year, junior intermediate - lying between two extremes in time or space or state; "going from sitting to standing without intermediate pushes with the hands"; "intermediate stages in a process"; "intermediate stops on the route"; "an intermediate range plane"

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