second-class status
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsecond classandstatus
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second-class
adjective
uk/ˌsek.ənd ˈklɑːs/us/ˌsek.ənd ˈklæs/
less important than ...
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status
noun
uk/ˈsteɪ.təs/us/ˈsteɪ.t̬əs/
an accepted or official position, especially in a ...
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(Definition ofsecond-classandstatusfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Focusing on the ways that nurse practitioners care for patients, she hopes, might change the way they are perceived and help to rectify theirsecond-classstatuswithin the medical hierarchy.
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Concrete syntax however has usually asecond-classstatus, through ad-hoc low-level parsers and printers.
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But we must be very careful not to reduce such proceedings to asecond-classstatus.
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They hadsecond-classstatuswith no access to the governance of that club.
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It is something very much like the change that happened among women about 100 years ago—a sudden refusal to acceptsecond-classstatus.
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It is high time that these women shed the somewhatsecond-classstatusimplied by the restrictions.
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Secondly, this would give our representatives, even if only for an interim period, something that would inevitably be near tosecond-classstatus.
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They seem to havesecond-classstatusas citizens.
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There is a danger that they may achieve thesecond-classstatuswhich all of us so desperately want to avoid.
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Certainly the trade unions must be more than concerned at the idea of asecond-classstatusfor some workers here.
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The reality, which the facts support, is that we suffer fromsecond-classstatusand second-class government.
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We are ending thesecond-classstatusof the self-employed.
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Equally, we were conscious of the fact that still too many women continue to suffersecond-classstatus.
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It is high time that the 1·5 million women in the manufacturing sector should shed the somewhatsecond-classstatusthat these restrictions imply.
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It looks after its members and pensioners, male and female, extraordinarily well, but it is at the price of women having to acknowledge theirsecond-classstatus.
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They seek to place individuals on an equitable tax footing and to affirm within the tax regime the importance to society of marriage, without placing women in asecond-classstatus.
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It is extremely important to begin to concentrate our attention on the number of hours worked and not on "full-time"as opposed to"part-time" work, the latter inevitably bearing asecond-classstatus.
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To ensure to old people a fixed living standard in a period when the working population is forging ahead year by year is to condemn them to permanentsecond-classstatus.
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