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status Definition

sta·tus (stat′əs, stāt′-)

noun pl. -·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

status Synonyms

status

n.

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

status Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • attain: Attaining full transactional status for the website is a key target for next year.
  • achieve: Here Sassoon seems to achieve the status of a tragic hero.
  • confer: The Bill itself does not confer this status on any particular regulator.

Adjective modifier

  • marital: For example the marital status to to the individual market.
  • charitable: ISA schools may or may not have charitable status.
  • nutritional: Unless the whole flock health and nutritional status is good, then poor fertility will result.
  • socio-economic: Key words: children, dental caries, dental health behavior, socio-economic status.
  • chartered: ICI offers this, and your projects cover many of the key skills required to gain chartered status.
  • legal: The legal status of the business must also be determined - there are three relevant models.

Modifies a noun

  • quo: Either way, the status quo is not an option.
  • morgages: Apply Online Now cheapest non status morgages quotes the case of a fixed or capped rate for how long.
  • epilepticus: The risks associated with status epilepticus therefore appear to be lower than previously reported.
  • mortgage: Apply Online Now low cost non status mortgage deals market.
  • symbol: Little Black pageboys in fancy clothes, were fashionable status symbol for many families.

Noun used with modifier

  • refugee: They seek refugee status in another country by lodging an asylum application.
  • cult: Whilst they are unlikely to break into the mainstream they will be assured thoroughly deserved cult status.
  • immigration: Body & Soul was welcoming, but the discussions about immigration status and access to treatment weren't relevant to me.
  • parity: For the changes insurance by a parity status in have the option.
  • employment: The Synergy Group have provided below a brief guide to help you ascertain your employment status.
  • observer: On the interim Ceredigion local access forum a number of organizations were given observer status ( for example Forest Enterprise, Wildlife Trusts ).
status Quotes

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

—Peter, LaurenceJ

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

To state as clearly as may be what means lie readyto develop a property-owning democracy, to bring the industrial and economic status of the wage-earner abreast of his political and educational status, to make democracy stable and four-square.

—Skelton, (Archibald) Noel

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to deaththose citizens or groups who question that status.

—Mamet, David Alan

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

It did not last: the Devil howling 'Ho! Let Einstein be!'restored the status quo.

—Squire, SirJ(ohn) C(ollings)

Any society, so long as it is, or feels itselfto be, a working society, tends to invest in itself: a military society tends to become more military, a bureaucratic society more bureaucratic, a commercial society more commercial, as thestatus and profits of waroroffice orcommerceare enhanced by success, and institutions are framed to forward it. Therefore, when such a society is hit by a general crisis, it finds itself partly paralyzed by the structural weight of increased social investment. The dominant military or official or commercial classes cannot easily change their orientation: and their social dominance, and the institutions through which it is exercised, prevent other classes from securing power or changing policy.

—Glanton

In the modern city, it takes on the status of a cathedral, our Chartres, our Notre Dame, our marble museum of the soul.

—Rodriguez, Richard

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

—Gould, StephenJay

The status of 'native' is a nervous condition introduced and maintained by the settler among colonized people with their consent.

—Sartre,Jean-Paul