"poor relation" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1999, Stephen Wilks, Great Britain. Monopolies, Mergers Commission, In the public interest:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
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        {
          "ref": "2007, Larry Devlin, Chief of station, Congo: a memoir of 1960-67, page 33:",
          "text": "In the State Department, Africa was the poor relation, handled as a subsidiary of the Middle East Bureau.",
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          "ref": "2024 April 3, Howard Johnston, “TfL is overflowing with ideas... but is short of the capital”, in RAIL, number 1006, page 31:",
          "text": "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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        "Something neglected or seen as inferior."
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          "word": "parent pauvre"
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          "roman": "ftochós syngenís",
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          "word": "φτωχός συγγενής"
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          "word": "parente povero"
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          "word": "ubogi krewny"
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "bédnyj ródstvennik",
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "бе́дный ро́дственник"
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  "word": "poor relation"
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          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2024 April 3, Howard Johnston, “TfL is overflowing with ideas... but is short of the capital”, in RAIL, number 1006, page 31:",
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        }
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      "word": "parent pauvre"
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      "lang": "Greek",
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        "masculine"
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      "word": "φτωχός συγγενής"
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      "word": "parente povero"
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      "word": "ubogi krewny"
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