second-class
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4.7
- adjective
- /ˈsɛkənd klæs/
- Offensive
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de segunda clase
- Taiwan's economic stature as one of the world's largest trading nations contrasts sharply with its second-class international status.
- second-class citizens
- second-class citizenship
- second-class status
I couldn't risk becoming a second class Android citizen.
- I couldn't risk becoming a second class Android citizen.
- And and make them second class citizens is what they're doing.
- Are you a first class citizen or are you a second class citizen?
- That tells me that these men only can be strong if women are submissive to them and only if women are second class citizens to them.
- They they, they are second class citizens and you do what your husband tells you at all times.
- To allow someone to enter adulthood and remain a very limited reader is to sentence him to second class citizenry.
- Like land is this sort of second class citizen on the Earth.
- But before that, you know, TV was like second class citizen.
- And you can be born belonging to the black class just because your parents were and and with that, you become the second citizen, second class citizen.
Examples
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Who also served this country in the military as second-class citizens codified into law.
Blog text (9) -
You will never know what it is like to be a second-class citizen in your own country.
Blog text (11) -
And that had put LGBTQ people in to a second class status.
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Too often, foreign reporters feel they are treated as second-class citizens in American information efforts.
Academic text (2002) -
Proposals that marginalize or treat any group as second-class citizens must be opposed.
Academic text (2008) -
Ethnic minorities in such countries suddenly found themselves treated as second-class citizens.
Academic text (2006) -
McCain: You know, it burns me up to be treated like a second-class citizen every time I leave this campus.
Fiction book (2002) -
As many terminationists noted, Indians had served well in the war and deserved something better than second-class citizenship.
Academic text (1991) -
As such, antidiscrimination laws condemn such persons to a second-class citizenship characterized by a complete lack of self-reliance and self-sufficiency.
Academic text (1997) -
Many people believe that treating anyone as a second-class citizen is unfair and discriminatory.
Synonyms
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4.2
A person of low rank or importance, for example a servant
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4.4
People who have less money, chances, or help than others
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4.4
Not as good as the best, often cheap or simple
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4.9
From the lowest social or economic group and seen as having low status
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3.5
People who have little money, little education, or low social status
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7.6
A person who has a low rank in a group or at work
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3.8
A person who has a less important job or less power in an organization
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4.2
Not having the same advantages or access to services as other people
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9.9
Not accepted by polite society after losing social status
Not having extra rights or advantages compared to others
Antonyms
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Morphology
Etymology
Second-class comes from the parts second and class, where second means 'after the first' and class means 'group' or 'rank'. So if something is called second-class, it is in the group behind the first and is often treated as lower in status or quality.