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Meaning of second-class citizen

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

second-class citizen

noun

Definitions

  1. A member of a class of individuals that receive inferior treatment.

noun

Definitions

  1. (languages) An entity of which the value can be passed as a parameter, but that can neither be returned from a function, nor be assigned to a variable. (Used by Raphael Finkel, the first-class object does not need to have run-time constructability according to his definition.)

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Related words

second classsubalternassociateclassmanunderclasswomanclassmatebourgeoisother backward class