Status is a state, condition or situation.
Status was also a magazine edited by
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Plural
- There seems to be some confusion concerning the plural form of status. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary gives the plural as statuses, or more rarely just status[1]. The Latin plural for status is status (with a long U) which might explain the confusion.
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^ Little, William; et al (2002). Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, Fifth edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 3011. ISBN 0198605757.
Social status is the honor or prestige attached to one's position in society (one's social position). The stratification system, which is the system of distributing rewards to the members of society, determines social status.
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status is a set of social conditions or relationships created and vested in an individual by an act of law rather than by the consensual acts of the parties, and it is in rem, i.e. these conditions must be recognised by the world.
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Status quo is a Latin term meaning the present, current, existing state of affairs.
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status symbol is something, usually an expensive or rare object, that indicates a high social status for its owner.
Etymology
The expression "status symbol" was first recorded in 1955 [1] but gained wide currency through the 1959 best selling book
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In some Semitic languages, notably Arabic, nunation is the addition of a final -n to a noun or adjective to indicate that it is fully declinable and syntactically unmarked for definiteness.
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The status constructus or construct state is a noun form occurring in Afro-Asiatic languages. It is particularly common in Semitic languages (such as Arabic and Hebrew), Berber languages, and in the extinct Egyptian language.
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Igor Cassini (September 15 1915 – January 5 2002) was an American syndicated gossip columnist for the Hearst newspaper chain. He was the second journalist to write the Cholly Knickerbocker column.
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The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, often abbreviated to SOED, is a scaled-down version of the “Oxford English Dictionary”. It comprises two volumes rather than the twenty needed for the full second edition of the OED.
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Oxford University Press (OUP) is a publishing house and a department of the University of Oxford in England. It is the largest university press in the world, being larger than all the American university presses combined with Cambridge University Press.
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