Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Belonging to the class next after the third.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective US  A former class ofmail consisting mostly of heavier printed matter
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Examples
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								But, strategically speaking, he was a fourth-class intellect who may have done lasting damage to the United States. 
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								But, strategically speaking, he was a fourth-class intellect who may have done lasting damage to the United States. 
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								And Beatrice and Virgil deserves to be severely reviled because this book, which should not have even been permitted even the fourth-class method of self-publication, earned its bumpkin author a six figure sum through indolence and incompetence. 
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								We are being pushed around like we are a fourth-class nation. Daring Young Men RICHARD REEVES 2010 
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								Teachers here are treated like second-class, third-class, fourth-class citizens. Leonie Haimson: What Frank McCourt Could Teach Joel Klein and Arne Duncan 2009 
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								Traveling as economically as possible, she carried not only enough food and reading for the trip but also a folding chair and a blanket: fourth-class travelers through Germany were not provided with seating. 
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								The Procrustes 'social structure is class-based, with lowly manual laborers (like the Engineer called Smith) being fourth-class citizens, their lives in the hands of the noble captain (a hermaphrodite named Ereshkigal) and her vassals. REVIEW: The Space Opera Renaissance edited by David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer 2006 
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								THE BADTreating "technical award" nominees like fourth-class citizens by lining them up onstage or handing out their awards in the aisle. Newsmakers 2008 
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								There were two reporters present, one representing a Folkestone paper and the other being a fourth-class interviewer and “symposium” journalist, whose expenses down, Filmer, anxious as ever for adequate advertisement — and now quite realising the way in which adequate advertisement may be obtained — had paid. Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006 
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								Christina Barlow had been a cheerleader, a fourth-class cadet in his squadron. The Shattered Blue Line Patrick A. Davis 2005 
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