i Register
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third-rate
adj 2noun 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
dramatic
VERB + THIRD-RATE
sing
THIRD-RATE + NOUN
company, night, tobacco
PREP.
without
Definitions
adj
1
Of a Royal Navy ship of the line in the Napoleonic Era: having 64–80 guns across two gun decks, a complement of 500–650, and weighing approximately 1,750 tons burthen.
2
Poor, shoddy; less than second-rate.
He was smoking a cherry-wood pipe, and looked on the whole as if he had borrowed his outfit from the wardrobe of a third-rate dramatic company.
I consider it to now be a third-rate service run without any excuses being offered.
noun
1
A third-rate ship of the line.
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He was smoking a cherry-wood pipe, and looked on the whole as if he had borrowed his outfit from the wardrobe of a third-rate dramatic company.
Wiktionary02
I consider it to now be a third-rate service run without any excuses being offered.
Wiktionary03
She has fallen so low as to sing at a third-rate night club.
Tatoeba · #24500904
This is third-rate tobacco.
Tatoeba · #2959053Usage Notes
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