0 → third-rate : --
The company is earning third-rate profits.
The noncontributing service is second- and third-class service and the contributing service is firsts-class service.
He is treated almost as a third-class citizen.
The colonel must go third-class and the captain must go first-class.
Of this number the first-class passengers all have sheltered accommodation and shelter is available for 24 of the third-class passengers.
By paying more to those who have first and second-class honours degrees we penalise the man with third-class honours for many years to come.
A third-class passenger has no prerogative right to a first-class seat without permission of the competent official.
In the second-class and third-class sections the same thing prevails even to a worse degree.
We decide that all our third-class carriages should be called second-class carriages, and overnight they become second-class carriages.