status
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təs, ˈstæt noun
1.
the position of an individual in relation to another or others, especially in regard to social or professional standing.
2.
state or condition of affairs: Arbitration has failed to change the status of the disagreement.
3.
Law. the standing of a person before the law.
adjective
4.
conferring or believed to confer elevated status: a status car; a status job.
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| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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World English Dictionary
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| —n , pl -tuses | |
| 1. | a social or professional position, condition, or standing to which varying degrees of responsibility, privilege, and esteem are attached |
| 2. | the relative position or standing of a person or thing |
| 3. | a high position or standing; prestige: he has acquired a new status since he has been in that job |
| 4. | the legal standing or condition of a person |
| 5. | a state of affairs |
| [C17: from Latin: posture, from stāre to stand] | |
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Word Origin & History
status
1670s, "height," later "legal standing of a person" (1791), from L. status "condition, position, state, manner, attitude," from stare "to stand," from PIE base *sta- "to stand" (see stet). Sense of "social or professional standing" is from 1820. Status symbol first recorded 1955.
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
status sta·tus (stā'təs, stāt'əs)
n.
A state or condition.
The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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American Heritage
Cultural Dictionary
status definition
The relative position of an individual within a group, or of a group within a society.
Note: Though the term can refer to either high or low standing, it is often used only to imply a position of prestige.
The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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Dazzler hides her status as a mutant from all but those closest to her.
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Iq does not explain the inheritance of economic status and wealth.
Wagon, chariot and carriage symbol and status in the history of transport.
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