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Noun
poor relation (plural poor relations)
- Something neglected or seen as inferior.
1999, Stephen Wilks, Great Britain. Monopolies, Mergers Commission, In the public interest:Competition policy was the poor relation of industrial policy. By the 1990s the position was reversed. Industrial policy was passe, competition policy was central to the economic policy debate.
2007, Larry Devlin, Chief of station, Congo: a memoir of 1960-67, page 33:In the State Department, Africa was the poor relation, handled as a subsidiary of the Middle East Bureau.
2024 April 3, Howard Johnston, “TfL is overflowing with ideas... but is short of the capital”, in RAIL, number 1006, page 31:The Bakerloo Line, the poor relation of the London Underground, has become a huge talking point in terms of both its immediate and medium-term future.
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