status symbol Betydning & definition

Eksempler på status symbol

• Language can be as much a trend and status symbol as clothing or cars, and slang has exactly that sort of social power and meaning.

• The portrait is originally displayed as his father's proudest status symbol.

• When men of letters and officials smoked, opium was cultured and a status symbol, but when the lower classes began to lie down, opium became degrading and ultimately criminal.

• A family heirloom or a newly acquired piano functioned as both status symbol and insurance policy, available as collateral to borrow money for other markers of class respectability.

• They are related to a status symbol competition with allies.

• They want to achieve a sort of status symbol.

• That is one status symbol at which nobody will cavil.

• It is very often novelty or even a status symbol.