third-class citizen
collocation in Englishmeaningsofthird-classandcitizen
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third-class
adjective
uk/ˌθɜːdˈklɑːs/us/ˌθɝːdˈklæs/
→ third-rate:
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citizen
noun[C]
uk/ˈsɪt.ɪ.zən/us/ˈsɪt̬.ə.zən/
a person who is a member of a particular country and who has rights because of being born there or because of being given rights, or a person who lives in a particular town ...
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(Definition ofthird-classandcitizenfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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He is treated almost as athird-classcitizen.
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In this modern age the wheelborne citizen no longer accepts the rôle of athird-classcitizen.
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A certified patient today immediately becomes a second-class orthird-classcitizen.
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I am athird-classcitizen, as he rightly pointed out.
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Why should they be shunned, third-class citizens merely because they learn in a special sort of education ghetto?
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The trawlermen and their families have been treated as third-class citizens for too long.
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How would he describe them—third-class citizens in old age?
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If pensioners feel like second-class citizens, women pensioners are often third-class citizens.
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It is obvious that there are second and third-class citizens on the benches opposite.
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We must get away entirely from this idea that the troops are second or third-class citizens.
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Believers are to a great extent second- or even third-class citizens, without rights.
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If matters continue as they are they will become third-class citizens.
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It will create not second-class, but third-class citizens who can be picked up at any time and fingerprinted.
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They have been reduced to third-class citizens in a land that they once owned.
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These are the third-class citizens.
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If he is, it means that there are people in this noble establishment who are somehow third-class citizens because they wait on us in dining rooms and so on.
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