Definition of "third-world" []

• Of or from the Third World. (adjective)

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• "The Conservative government is taking steps to get running water into the homes in first-nations communities in northern Manitoba where thousands of people are living in what has been described as third-world conditions."
• "The doctrine of odious debt was first proposed in 1927 by an obscure legal scholar named Alexander Sack, but did not gain currency until the late 1990s when poverty activists started applying the term to third-world debts."
• "If our economic system had been able to do that, how does one explain the rise in poverty, the lowering of wages for working class and middle class families, the dramatic increase in incarceration and the disproportionate redistribution of wealth to a smaller and smaller percentage of the population with the result that soon the United States will become the richest third-world country on the planet?"