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What is "second class"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
second class
noun
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▪ Competition is keen and candidates must offer a minimum of an upper second class honours degree together with evidence of satisfactory financial arrangements.
▪ He changed into his civilian clothes a holiday in itself-and boarded a passenger liner to the Foundation, second class.
▪ He dropped to second class in the examinations of June 1788, and after that was unplaced.
▪ He was educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Oxford, where he obtained a second class in modern history in 1911.
▪ It mattered less what the company clerks and rubber plantation foremen in second class might feel.
▪ One corporation elected to be an S corporation at a time when it had a second class of stock.
▪ One day I changed from second class to high class.
▪ Within this second class, there are two subtypes.
Wiktionary
second class

a. (alternative spelling of second-class English) n. The second-lowest rank in the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy%20Scouts%20of%20America, between tenderfoot and first class

WordNet
second class

  1. n. not the highest rank in a classification

  2. not the highest rank in a classification

  3. accommodations on a ship or train or plane that are less expensive than first class accommodations [syn: Cabin class]

  4. adv. by second class conveyance; "we traveled second class"

Wikipedia
Second class

Second class generally indicates a secondary level of service or importance. More specific, it may refer to:

  • Economy class, in transport
  • Travel class, in transport
  • Second Class Scout, see ranks in the Boy Scouts of America
  • Second-class citizen
  • 2.-class torpedo boat, Scandinavian ships
  • Second class honours, ranking second in a hierarchy of honours
  • Second class, a subdivision of military ranks

Usage examples of "second class".

Large sections of the Second Class Living Quarters were wanting decorating, some were even without beds.

Where the large, sprawling brasserie for Second Class Passengers should have sprawled, there was only a large, sprawling empty space littered with builders' rubble and more polystyrene cups.