Definition of "small-time" [small-time]

• On a small scale. (adjective)

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• "The paper was referring to small-time crooks and drug dealers, but Sydney knew that on that day a larger-scale criminal had been there."
• "Attaching a multi-shilling tax to every court transaction would be murder to tenant farmers and small-time artisans."
• "By what lawful and proper manner would terrorism information from the confidential national database, disclosure of which information could tip terrorists or harm a citizen, travel from a small-time police department to a small-time local newspaper?"