Usually means: Inferior in quality or value.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word second rate:

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

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

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. second rate: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Second rate)

adjective:  Alternative spelling of second-rate [(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.]
noun:  Alternative spelling of second-rate [(UK, military, nautical, historical) A second-rate ship of the line.]

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