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second class, n.
The second of a ranked series of classes in which things are grouped; esp. of university degrees, railway carriages, and mail.
1810Oxf. Univ. Calendar 57 The second class is sub⁓divided into two parts, according to the different degrees of merit. 1844Punch VII. 258/2 In travelling by the second class, you will..be choked with dust and ashes from the engine. 1852[see class n. 5]. 1863Statutes at Large U.S.A. xii. 705 The second class embraces all mailable matter exclusively in print, and regularly issued at stated periods. 1883U.S. Official Postal Guide Jan. 733 ‘Nixes’ is a term used..to denote matter of domestic origin, chiefly of the first and second class, which is unmailable. 1931H. Crane Let. 20 June (1965) 373 The post (for books, etc. 2nd class) is apt to be very slow to Mexico. |