second-class

See also: second class

English

Adjective

second-class (not comparable)

1. 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

• first-class
• third-class

Translations

inferior in quality or standing

• Dutch: tweede klas
• Finnish: toisen luokan
• German: zweiter Klasse, zweitklassig (de)
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• Hungarian: másodosztályú (hu)
• Latin: secundārius
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: annenklasses, annenrangs