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third class(dictionary)
second-class(dictionary)
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second class(dictionary)
first-class(medicine)
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Second Class(money)

second class (iou)



second class noun phr., adjective, & adverb. As adjective & adverb also second-class. E19.
[from SECOND adjective + CLASS noun.]
A. noun phr. The second of a ranked series of classes in which things are grouped; the second-best accommodation in a train, boat, aircraft, etc.; mail over which first-class mail is given preference; a compartment of a train etc. offering the second-best accommodation; (a person with) a place in the second highest division of an examination list. E19.
b. adjective. Belonging to, achieving, travelling by, etc., the class next to the first; of the second-best quality; inferior in status etc. M19.
second-class citizen a person deprived of normal civic and legal rights; a person treated socially as inferior.
Quarterly Review Six second class cruisers..have been converted into mine-layers. G. Black I drove..into a second class road that became acutely third class. G. Hammond Put a second class stamp on it and it may never get there.
C. adverb. By second-class accommodation in a train, boat, aircraft, etc.; by second-class mail. M19.