second-class

See also: second class

English

Adjective

second-class (not comparable)

Inferior in quality or standing.
He complained he felt like a second-class citizen, but everyone felt put upon that day.

Using second-class parts for the repair was false economy because they soon broke and had to be fixed again.

We shipped the package by second-class postage.

Related terms

Translations

inferior in quality or standing

Dutch: tweede klas
Finnish: toisen luokan
German: zweiter Klasse, zweitklassig (de)

Hungarian: másodosztályú (hu)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: annenrangs

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