Meaning of status in English

status

noun

/ˈsteɪ.təs/ us/ˈsteɪ.t̬əs/ us

/ˈstæt̬.əs/

status noun (OFFICIAL POSITION)

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an accepted or official position, especially in a social group:

The association works to promote the status of retired people as useful members of the community.

There has been an increase in applications for refugee status.

The success of her book has given her unexpected celebrity status.

Applicants should have a degree or a qualification of equal status.

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Few would dispute his status as the finest artist of the period.
They want to elevate the status of teachers.
It's a very hierarchical organization in which everyone's status is clearly defined.
John Lennon gained iconic status following his death.
The school has charitable status.

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status noun (RESPECT)

the amount of respect, admiration, or importance given to a person, organization, or object:

high/low status

As the daughter of the president, she enjoys high status among her peers.

The leaders were often more concerned with status and privilege than with the problems of the people.

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status noun (SOCIAL MEDIA)

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on a social media website, especially Facebook™, a piece of information that you publish about yourself telling people what you are doing, thinking, etc. at a particular time

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status

noun [ U ]

/ˈsteɪ·t̬əs, ˈstæt̬·əs/

status noun [U] (POSITION)

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position or rank, esp. in a social group or legal system:

The association works to promote the status of retired people as active and useful members of the community.

Status can also mean state or condition at a particular time:

The type of treatment used will depend on the patient’s health status.

status noun [U] (RESPECT)

the position of respect and importance given to someone or something:

The leaders often seemed to be more concerned with status and privilege than with the problems of the people.

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status

noun

/ˈsteɪtəs/ us

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[ S or U ]

the official or legal position of a person or organization:

Employers are required to check the legal status of their new hires to ensure that they are eligible to work.

The group was granted charitable status.

change the status of sb/sth He needs to get a permit to change the land's status from agriculture to industrial.

The qualification will raise her status to staff nurse.

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the situation at the present time:

Everybody is concerned right now with the financial status of the whole country.

Your order status has changed to "Dispatched".

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the level or position of someone or something in relation to others in a group:

high/low status We have a much higher number of women workers in low-paid, low-status jobs.

They want to improve the status of women.

sb/sth's status as sth London's status as Europe's leading aviation hub

Developers are cashing in on the area's newly hip status.

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a high position within a social group:

There is prestige and social status attached to ownership of certain brands.

Suits were a sign of status.

Examples of status

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Such a general type-label makes no distinction among the textual and ontological statuses of what might be radically different fictional entities.

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Positions and statuses are held in abeyance until the following season until they can be redefined and re-established.

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Parameters are estimated describing latent statuses and their evolution over time and the model's fit to data can be tested.

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According to the serial results, we hypothesize there may be two statuses of tissue perfusion: homogenous hypoperfusion or scattered ischemia.

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A re-survey of the same sections and lineages c. 2000, during a full agricultural cycle, shows a significant improvement in nutritional statuses, notably for women.

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Policymakers in many countries are grappling with whether and how to regulate different statuses in different ways.

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The customers within the store were surprisingly all different, various races and seemingly socio-economic statuses.

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Metaphors do not poverty make, but through cultural discourse practices are valorized, options legitimated and statuses lent prestige or disparagement.

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The different statuses of the languages can be illustrated in different ways.

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The distribution of forms across statuses that meet necessary conditions for their use is not random, however.

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Thus, the report recommends discontinuing the use of waiting time as an allocation criterion for liver transplant candidates in certain statuses.

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Significant differences between genotypes and between infection statuses were found in some of the measurements.

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By bringing people in conflict together, arbitrators of all statuses helped to establish their own prominence.

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The interrelationship between substance use and precocious transitions to adult statuses.

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The ' is entailed by ' part obviously doesn't belong here, as it would render the statuses equivalent.

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Collocations with status

status

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alert status

We have received a number of representations from organisations and members of the public about our nuclear deterrent, including its alert status.

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amateur status

I believe that that amateur status reflects the national attitude to politics.

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ambiguous status

The premiers were now firmly in the deployment net, their ambiguous status gone.

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Translations of status

in Chinese (Traditional)

正式地位, （尤指在社會中的）地位，身份, 尊重…

Meaning of status in English

status noun (OFFICIAL POSITION)

status noun (RESPECT)

status noun (SOCIAL MEDIA)

status | American Dictionary

status noun [U] (POSITION)

status noun [U] (RESPECT)

status | Business English

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