also second class
1.
If someone treats you as a second-class citizen, they treat you as if you are less valuable and less important than other people.
Too many airlines treat our children as second-class citizens.
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2.
If you describe something as second-class , you mean that it is of poor quality.
I am not prepared to see children in some parts of this country having to settle for a second-class education.
= second-rate
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3.
The second-class accommodation on a train or ship is the ordinary accommodation, which is cheaper and less comfortable than the first-class accommodation.
He sat in the corner of a second-class carriage...
...a second-class ticket.
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Second class is also an adverb.
I recently travelled second class from Pisa to Ventimiglia.
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Second-class is second-class accommodation on a train or ship.
In second class the fare is £85 one-way.
N-UNCOUNT
4.
In Britain, second-class postage is the slower and cheaper type of postage. In the United States, second-class postage is the type of postage that is used for sending newspapers and magazines.
...a second-class stamp.
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Second class is also an adverb.
They’re going to send it second class.
ADV : ADV after v
5.
In Britain, a second-class degree is a good university degree, but not as good as a first-class degree.
A second-class honours degree is the minimum requirement.
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