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status definition

sta·tus (stat′əs, stāt′-)

noun pl. statuses -·tuses

  1. condition or position with regard to law the status of a minor
    1. position; rank; standing high status
    2. high position; prestige seeking status
  3. state or condition, as of affairs economic status

Etymology: L: see state

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status

n.

rank, situation, standing, station, state; see also rank 3. See syn. study at state.


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status Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • attain: Attaining full transactional status for the website is a key target for next year.

Adjective modifier

  • marital: For example the marital status to to the individual market.

Modifies a noun

  • quo: Either way, the status quo is not an option.

Noun used with modifier

  • refugee: They seek refugee status in another country by lodging an asylum application.
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status quotes

The economic status of women generally depends on that of men generally, and†the economic status of women individually depends upon that of men individually, those men to whom they are related.

-Gilman and Charlotte Perkins Stetson

A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted, he must also be right.

-Gould, StephenJay

Every lunch time I went to see how my inheritance was proceeding. Sometimes the deaths column brought good news. Sometimes the births column brought bad. The advent of twin sons to the Duke was a terrible blow. Fortunatelyanepidemic ofdiphtheria restored thestatus quo almost immediately.

-Hamer, Robert

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