Thirds are faulty or damaged goods of a standard lower than seconds.
Their products are worse than factory seconds: we call them factory thirds.
The crockery on clearance is categorized as seconds, with some thirds, which have more obvious cracks and flaws.
Thirds are faulty or damaged goods of a standard lower than seconds.
Examples of 'thirds' in a sentence
thirds
Guess I'll take this over to the table and come back for thirds.
Smith, Evelyn E MISS MELVILLE REGRETS (2002)
Wesley watched her, with interest, plucking on, blindly; two thirds of the heron's chest area now all but bare.
Nicola Barker BEHINDLINGS (2002)
All related terms of 'thirds'
third
The third item in a series is the one that you count as number three.
third class honours degree
coming after the second and preceding the fourth in numbering or counting order, position, time, etc; being the ordinal number of three: often written 3rd
two-thirds
Two-thirds of something is an amount that is two out of three equal parts of it.
two-thirds majority
A majority is the difference between the number of votes or seats in parliament or legislature that the winner gets in an election , and the number of votes or seats that the next person or party gets.
Picardy third
a major chord used in the final chord of a piece of music in the minor mode
tierce de Picardie
a major chord used in the final chord of a piece of music in the minor mode