Usually means: Inferior in quality or value.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word second-rate:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. second-rate: Merriam-Webster
  2. second-rate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. second-rate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. second-rate, second-rate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. second-rate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Second-Rate, Second-rate, second-rate: Wordnik
  7. second-rate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. second-rate: Wiktionary
  9. second-rate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. second-rate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. second-rate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. second-rate: Dictionary.com
  13. second-rate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Second-rate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Second-rate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. second-rate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. second-rate: Rhymezone
  18. second-rate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. second-rate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. second-rate: FreeDictionary.org
  21. second-rate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. second-rate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. second-rate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. second-rate: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  (UK, military, nautical, historical) Of a Royal Navy ship of the line in the Napoleonic Era: having 80–98 guns across three gun decks, a complement of 700–750, and weighing approximately 2,200 tons burthen.
▸ adjective:  (idiomatic) Of mediocre quality; not first-rate.
▸ noun:  (UK, military, nautical, historical) A second-rate ship of the line.

Similar:
mediocre, inferior, poor, third-rate, first-rate, sixth-rate, fifth-rate, subaltern, lieutenant, petit, more...

Opposite:
first-rate, top-notch, excellent, superior

Types:
inferior, substandard, mediocre, poor, deficient, more...

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Similar:
mediocre, inferior, poor, third-rate, first-rate, sixth-rate, fifth-rate, subaltern, lieutenant, petit, more...

Opposite:
first-rate, top-notch, excellent, superior

Types:
inferior, substandard, mediocre, poor, deficient, more...



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