adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a first-class/second-class/third-class degree (= the level at which you pass a degree at a British university )
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She was awarded a first-class degree.
second-class post
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Items sent by second-class post can take up to five days to arrive.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
citizen
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Some speak resentfully of a takeover by the Wessis, with themselves marked out for the role of second-class citizens .
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Here we are, second-class citizens in our own country.
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One danger of treating all crime as sickness is that it makes the criminal a second-class citizen .
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We did not have a chance to mingle with Okinawansthey were considered second-class citizens .
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They want to treat all Arabs as slaves and second-class citizens .
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Private car-owners have become second-class citizens .
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But they remained second-class citizens as the Service restocked itself with young men of the right background from Oxford and Cambridge.
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Women were very definitely second-class citizens .
citizenship
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Means-tested assistance is equated by the customer with second-class citizenship .
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The effect of this order was to confer second-class citizenship on the proud Washington.
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Put another way, that means lower salaries for members a proposal more redolent of second-class citizenship than a classless society.
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Anything less would be second-class citizenship in the world of intercollegiate sports.
stamp
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The quantity relative for second-class stamps is 140.0, indicating an increase in numbers bought of 40%.
status
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I would not want to return women to the second-class status they are only now escaping.
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It is a fitting reminder of the isolation and second-class status of these efforts.
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In many places, women seemed beaten down and resigned to their second-class status .
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Enraged and impelled by her second-class status , she became one of the first literary feminists.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
second-class citizen
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But they remained second-class citizens as the Service restocked itself with young men of the right background from Oxford and Cambridge.
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Here we are, second-class citizens in our own country.
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One danger of treating all crime as sickness is that it makes the criminal a second-class citizen .
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Private car-owners have become second-class citizens .
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Some speak resentfully of a takeover by the Wessis, with themselves marked out for the role of second-class citizens .
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They want to treat all Arabs as slaves and second-class citizens .
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We did not have a chance to mingle with Okinawansthey were considered second-class citizens .
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Women were very definitely second-class citizens .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Enraged and impelled by her second-class status, she became one of the first literary feminists.
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I would not want to return women to the second-class status they are only now escaping.
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In many places, women seemed beaten down and resigned to their second-class status.
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It is a fitting reminder of the isolation and second-class status of these efforts.
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She took her finals in 1900 and was awarded second-class honours in the university examination for women.
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Somewhere south of York, Hubert was alone in a second-class non-smoking compartment.
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They want to treat all Arabs as slaves and second-class citizens.