Definitions

third world

NOUN

underdeveloped countries

Synonyms

WEAK

developing countries developing nations economically developing countries economically developing nations emergent nations underdeveloped nations

Example Sentences

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In fact, on a midnight shift in Cheyenne Mountain, I even read Tom Clancy’s “Red Storm Rising,” which envisioned the Cold War gone hot, a Third World War gone nuclear.

From Salon

Long years went by under this cloud, but as the U.S.S.R. began collapsing and the “Third World” lost whatever coherence it ever had, demands to repeal “Z/r” grew.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mr. Easterly is not a friend of rich-world technocrats or top-down dispensers of aid and omniscience who frequently fail to consult the very people—the Third World poor—for whose salvation they get paid handsomely.

From The Wall Street Journal

“You guys have put us into a Third World situation,” Scott Dittrich, a resident of Malibu, said at a Sept. 30 meeting that the city had with Edison to address the shutoffs.

From Los Angeles Times

Amon, Verde and DJ JG were playing a gig in Sacramento, where they shot a video clip for their hard-hitting Spanglish-language tune “Third World Problems” in front of the state Capitol.

From Los Angeles Times