Usually means: Lowest quality, least importance category.
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  1. fourth-rate: Merriam-Webster
  2. fourth-rate, fourth-rate: Collins English Dictionary
  3. fourth-rate: Wordnik
  4. Fourth-rate, Fourth rate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. fourth-rate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  6. fourth rate: Wiktionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Fourth rate)

adjective:  Alternative spelling of fourth-rate [(UK, military, nautical, historical) Of a Royal Navy ship of the line in the Napoleonic Era: having 50–60 guns across two gun decks, a complement of 320–420, and weighing approximately 1,000 tons burthen.]
noun:  Alternative spelling of fourth-rate [(UK, military, nautical, historical) A fourth-rate ship of the line.]

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