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What does fourth estate mean?

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Noun
  1. (obsolete) A hypothetical fourth class of civic subjects, or fourth body (in Britain, after the Crown, and the two Houses of Parliament) which governed legislation.
  2. (idiomatic) Journalism or journalists considered as a group; the press.
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