📚 noun • entry_id 56021
poor relation
Meanings (ES + gloss)
pariente pobre
Something neglected or seen as inferior.
Because of our homosexuality the Black community casts us as outsiders. We are the poor relations, the proverbial black sheep, without a history, a literature, a religion, or a com…
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 p…
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