- a lower class [grade]
下級の low-class, lower-grade;〔年下の〕junior
- 下級官庁a subordinate agency
- 下級官吏a lower-level [junior, petty] official
- 下級裁判所a lower court
- 下級職員〔総称〕lower-grade staff; junior personnel ((in a government office))
- 下級審a trial by a lower court
- 下級生a lower-grade [lower-class] student [boy; girl]
- 下級判事a magistrate