"third best" meaning in All languages combined

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1997 Mar, Lars E. O. Svensson, “Optimal Inflation Targets, \"Conservative\" Central Banks, and Linear Inflation Contracts”, in The American Economic Review, volume 87, number 1, pages 98–114",
          "text": "This reduces the inflation bias but brings higher employment variability than is optimal, a \"stabilization bias,\" and hence leads to a third-best equilibrium rather than the second best.",
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        "Characterized by being a third best in the below sense."
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        "(economics) Characterized by being a third best in the below sense."
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    {
      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "word": "third-best"
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  "word": "third best"
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    {
      "word": "first best"
    },
    {
      "word": "second best"
    },
    {
      "word": "fourth best"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
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      "glosses": [
        "A second best that is second best relative to a situation that is itself a second best."
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        [
          "second best",
          "second best"
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        "(economics) A second best that is second best relative to a situation that is itself a second best."
      ],
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        "economics",
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      "word": "third-best"
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  "word": "third best"
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    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
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    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
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  "pos": "adj",
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        "en:Economics"
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        "Characterized by being a third best in the below sense."
      ],
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        "(economics) Characterized by being a third best in the below sense."
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    {
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  "word": "third best"
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    {
      "word": "first best"
    },
    {
      "word": "second best"
    },
    {
      "word": "fourth best"
    }
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    "English countable nouns",
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        "A second best that is second best relative to a situation that is itself a second best."
      ],
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        [
          "economics",
          "economics"
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          "second best",
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        "(economics) A second best that is second best relative to a situation that is itself a second best."
      ],
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