Larceny of property having a value less than some amount (the amount varies by locale)
(Informal) small and of little importance.
Inferior in rank or status.
Contemptibly narrow in outlook.
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Examples for "secondary "
Examples for "secondary "
1 Question: My daughter is 14 and in second year of secondary school.
2 Today we accept free primary and secondary education as a national birth-right.
3 It also wants to extend health services in all public secondary schools.
4 There is also a secondary problem -how to add new services.
5 A senior industry official said the cost was likely to be secondary .
1 This however depends on other results due to their inferior goal difference.
2 Other problems frequently cited include external weapons and an inferior outdated engine.
3 The energistic effect downgraded their electronic systems to a woefully inferior state.
4 No general system existed; the masters were very inferior and ill paid.
5 Now in the physical order the inferior is moved by the superior.
1 They must be subordinate always to the general motive of the play.
2 Servants and subordinate agents in England are quite unmanageable in these respects.
3 The monks are only in an ecclesiastical sense subordinate to the abbot.
4 So far in relation to the rights and privileges of subordinate lodges.
5 An Army general isn't just accused of sexually assaulting a female subordinate .
1 Niryn did not regret his lowly birth; quite the opposite, in fact.
2 She would soon forget that night in London with her lowly lieutenant.
3 Their first aim was lowly ; and the way gradually opened before them.
4 Give wisdom to the simple this day, and understanding to the lowly .
5 She had learnt also the lowly and self-denying faith in common chances.
1 He returned abruptly to the subaltern officer and the regiment in Canada.
2 The subaltern went along the verandah to the door and tried it.
3 The blood seems to be boiling in my head, gasped the subaltern .
4 The new subaltern of A Battery suddenly lowered himself into the pit.
5 His heart beat at one with the heart of the junior subaltern .
1 That ought to make him at least a junior - grade military genius.
2 Harried noncoms and junior - grade officers buzzed everywhere, failing miserably to bring order to the chaos.
1 Sources from both sides said negotiations among lower - ranking officials would continue on Wednesday.
2 One of the lower - ranking officers on the bridge gasped, eyes widening.
3 It led to more prosecutions against lower - ranking individuals in the Nazi death machine.
4 Leaderwolves usually wait for lower - ranking wolves to come to them.
5 The restructuring plan anticipates EFIH will emerge from bankruptcy owned by lower - ranking unsecured creditors.
1 Social Housing Minister Paula Bennett said the group were playing petty politics.
2 Which was true, of course, and petty of me to bring up.
3 I don't have time to resolve these petty family squabbles right now.
4 Oppression, daily petty harassment and humiliation are the breeding ground for violence.
5 The provost, however, had never wasted his time with such petty artifice.
6 We'll make sure that these petty impediments are resolved within the month.
7 Again, avoid the petty squabbles because you're looking to embrace new vistas.
8 The sternness of the petty officers could not halt the spreading feeling.
9 Your petty Alliance will no longer be of any concern to us.
10 More and more it has resulted in petty tactics for vote catching.
11 Yet this petty brawl was in fact an irreparable and farreaching disaster.
12 It creates the petty thief, and puts him in a bamboo cage.
13 Drink your wine, de Glanville, and put these petty differences behind you.
14 Do so; and you will save yourself a world of petty troubles.
15 After all, that is nothing; petty larceny, six months at the most.
16 He spoiled his chance when he meddled in the petty Italian politics.
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