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[ noun ] the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society

Synonyms

position

Examples

: "he had the status of a minor" "the novel attained the status of a classic" "atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life"

Used in print

(William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)

When , therefore , it turned its attention to the concrete entities with which popular imagination had peopled the world of spirit , these entities soon lost whatever status they had enjoyed as actual elements of external reality .

(High Fidelity, 11:10...)

Other innovations with better claims to musical interest survived rehearing to acquire in_time the status of classics .

(Edward Austin Walton, "On Education for the Interior...)

This anomalous status of the educator cannot fail to lower his standing in the eyes of the students .

We must build a corps of highly professional teachers of interior_design who have had education , experience in the profession and are willing to take_on the usual accompaniments of teaching - minimal income and minimal status among their confreres .

(Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)

In all_of this extensive and expensive effort , the camera was downgraded to the status of recording instrument for art_work produced elsewhere by the actor or by the author .

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[ noun ] a condition or state at a particular time

Synonyms

condition

Examples

: "a condition (or state) of disrepair" "the current status of the arms negotiations"

Used in print

(Statements 87th Congress, 1st Session. Appropriations,...)

Subject_to the limitations of_this Act , the Secretary shall make stabilization payments to small domestic producers upon presentation of evidence satisfactory to him of their status as such producers and of the sale by them of newly mined ores , or concentrates produced therefrom , as provided in_this Act .

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