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fourth-class

fourth-class adjective: a former class of mail consisting mostly of heavier printed matter.

Adjective

fourth-class (not comparable)

  1. (US) A former class of mail consisting mostly of heavier printed matter.
    • Was it once stated that fourth class carriages no longer existed? But I have travelled fourth class in Jugoslavia and also on the C.F.A.E. in Algeria on the line from Oran to Colomb Bechar.1945 July and August, John Gibbons, “Thirty Years of The Railway Magazine”, in Railway Magazine, page 229

Questions about fourth-class

What does fourth-class mean?
Fourth-class means a former class of mail consisting mostly of heavier printed matter.
What part of speech is fourth-class?
Fourth-class is an adjective.

Words near fourth-class in the dictionary

  1. fourth walls
  2. Fourth World
  3. Fourth World War
  4. fourth year
  5. fourth years
  6. fourth-class
  7. fourth-degree
  8. fourth-degree burn
  9. fourth-degree burns
  10. fourth-dimensionally
  11. fourth-party logistics

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