second division

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noun Sports.

the half of a league comprising the teams having the poorest records at a particular time.

Nearby words

second consonant shift, second cousin, second cranial nerve, second cuneiform bone, second derivative, second division, second empire, second estate, second fiddle, second floor, second generation

Origin of second division

First recorded in 1895–1905

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Examples from the Web for second division

You needn't be so stuffy, dad, because her father's only a second-division clerk at the Treasury.
Mr. Prohack|E. Arnold Bennett