status
nomcourant dans les dialogues
- Canada//ˈsteɪt.əs//
- Canada/[ˈsteɪɾ.əs]/
- Australie//ˈstæt.əs//
- Irlande//ˈsteɪ.təs//
A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.
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- 1
A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.
Superstition is highly correlated with economic status.
This time, there’s no great discrepancy in status; both fiancés are part of the urban, white-collar middle class.
- 2
Prestige or high standing.
The king has status in his kingdom, and the pauper has status within his immediate group of peers.
It is no secret that the military was a bastion of racism and sexism keeping blacks and women in the housekeeping and other non-status jobs.
- 3
A situation or state of affairs.
Near-synonym: footing
What's the status of the investigation?
New York is known for its status as a financial center.
If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, […]. Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast's status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.
- 4
The legal condition of a person or thing.
- 5
The legal condition of a person or thing. The state (of a Canadian First Nations person) of being registered under the Indian Act.
He is a status Indian.
- 6
A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message that appears automatically to other users, if they attempt to make contact.
I'm just about to update my status to "busy".
I read your status last night / You posted that someone else was holding you tight
- 7
Variante de status epilepticus or status asthmaticusShort for status epilepticus or status asthmaticus.
Étymologie
A learned borrowing from Latin status. A doublet of state and estate. Displaced native Old English hād (“rank, status”).
Formes
- pluriel
- statuses, stati
status · A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.
statute · A written law or ordinance passed by a legislative body.stay · To remain in a particular place, especially for a definite or…Stay · A surname.