0 an accepted or official position, especially in a social group: --
Applicants should have a degree or a qualification of equal status.
The success of her book has given her unexpected celebrity status.
There has been an increase in applications for refugee status.
The association works to promote the status of retired people as useful members of the community.
1 the amount of respect, admiration, or importance given to a person, organization, or object: --
2 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 --
3 position or rank, esp. in a social group or legal system: --
4 the position of respect and importance given to someone or something: --
5 the official or legal position of a person or organization: --
The qualification will raise her status to staff nurse.
change the status of sb/sth He needs to get a permit to change the land's status from agriculture to industrial.
The group was granted charitable status.
Employers are required to check the legal status of their new hires to ensure that they are eligible to work.
Table 6 presents the proportions of respondents having exited unemployment for different statuses two years after the first interview.
Hasn't something gone horribly wrong if our theory implies that such paradigmatic virtues and vices have such unstable moral statuses?
In the collaborative model of the experiment, two distinct statuses are open to the actors.
The simplest model has just two statuses, uninfected and previously infected.
Therefore, we could conduct a re-survey of nutritional statuses in the same 10 sections occupied by 24 lineage groups and 3 mixed groups.
What is judged significant is the overall configuration of social relations and the existence of statuses of a particular kind.
The borderlines distinguishing these three statuses are very slight considering the significance societies often attribute to the differences.
Moreover, racial stereotyping is often more complex than stigmatization of mental illness and other devalued statuses.
