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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
SEC'OND-RATE, n. [second and rate.] The second order in size, dignity, or value.
They call it thunder of the second-rate. Addison.
So we say, a ship of the second-rate.
SEC'OND-RATE, a. Of the second size, rank, quality or value; as a second-rate ship; a second-rate cloth; a second-rate champion.
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
adj
1: moderate to inferior in quality; "they improved the quality from mediocre to above average" [syn: mediocre, second-rate]
Merriam Webster's
adjective Date: 1669 of second or inferior quality or value; mediocre< a second-rate restaurant > • second-rateness noun • second-rater noun
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Second-rate Sec"ond-rate`, a. Of the second size, rank, quality, or value; as, a second-rate ship; second-rate cloth; a second-rate champion. --Dryden.
Collin's Cobuild Dictionary
If you describe something as second-rate, you mean that it is of poor quality. ...second-rate restaurants. ...another second-rate politician. ADJ
