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Wiktionary

  1. n. Those countries not aligned with the west or the east during the Cold War.
  2. n. sometimes pejorative The developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. underdeveloped and developing countries of Asia and Africa and Latin America collectively

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  • “D. Jakes are wielding their enormous influence to confront AID., Third World debt relief, and the genocide in D.rfur.”

    The Audacity of Hope

  • “How about a wee 'sorry' for telling women in the Third World not to use contraception even when they've already got twelve starving weans.”

    Boiling a Frog

  • “Nothing personal, Sheila, I know Third World algebra is important, but it didn't do dogshit at the box office; and, Joan, that little book of poems you printed about driftwood and your mama's melanoma was real pretty, it brought big whopping tears to my eyes is what it did, but, honestly now, the GNP was unaffected.”

    Fictionaut: La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth

  • “It was horrifying, an image of torture, the kind of image that leaked out of Iraq and untold Third World hellholes.”

    Crusader Gold

  • “Pastors, friends of mine like Rick Warren and T.D. Jakes are wielding their enormous influences to confront AIDS, Third World debt relief, and the genocide in Darfur.”

    Call to Renewal Keynote Address

  • “An example of a technology cluster was the package of rice-or wheat-growing innovations that led to the Green Revolution in the Third World countries of Latin America, Africa, and Asia.”

    Simon & Schuster: Diffusion of Innovations

  • “Alas, the little shop on Royal Street could no more afford that kind of equipment than a Third World spider could afford designer webs and flies cordon bleu.”

    Fictionaut: La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth

  • “In late 1976 a number of individuals and church and social welfare organizations joined with members of a study group at the Third World Institute of the Newman Center to form the Infant Formula Action Coalition INFACT, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.”

    Simon & Schuster: Strategic Management in Developing Countries Case Studies

  • “And it was 1968—the year of Chinatown protest, when my father observed a blighted, dilapidated neighborhood—that students at San Francisco State College, now San Francisco State University, drew national attention by staging the Third World Student Strike in support of establishing an ethnic studies program there.”

    Simon & Schuster: American Chinatown

  • “Push Me’—Pull You:All About Drivetrains and Transmissions nless you plan on a horse-drawn RV reportedly popular in Third World domains, you’ll need to buy a tow vehicle or settle on an appropriate power plant configuration in a motorhome.”

    Simon & Schuster: The RVer’s Bible

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