status
B2Academic AWL-4Frequent NGSL-2UK /ˈsteɪtəs/US /ˈsteɪtəs/
Meaning
noun
the legal position of a person, group or country
“They were granted refugee status.”
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“Your intelligence, your capacity for hard work, the education you have earned and received give you unique status and unique responsibilities.”
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“My contention is that creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.”
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“"Everything we do, we believe in challenging the status quo.”
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Your intelligence, your capacity for hard work, the education you have earned and received give you unique status and unique responsibilities.
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