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second-generation
[ sek-uhnd-jen-uh-rey-shuhn ]
adjective
- being the second generation of a family to be born in a particular country:
the oldest son of second-generation Americans.
- being the native-born child of naturalized parents.
- being a revised or improved version of a product, system, service, etc.:
Production has been increased with second-generation robots.
second generation
noun
- offspring of parents born in a given country
adjective
- of an improved or refined stage of development in manufacture
a second-generation robot
Example Sentences
Pryor, a second-generation senator, is holding off a fierce challenge from conservative idol Tom Cotton.
But the biggest difference in the second-generation trip is that the new bus is a drug-free zone.
The principal, a second-generation Holocaust survivor, takes offense.
That coal miner was a second-generation miner in his late 30s.
But the second-generation Latino family looks very different.
Probably second-generation ones can keep going after we'd pass out.
For these second-generation farms, wheat and corn for export to England and the West Indies became the principal income crops.
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