| 单词 | status-obsessed |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstatus-obsessed C1. Instrumental and limitative (in sense A. 3), as status-bound, status-obsessed, status-ridden, etc. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > [adjective] > relating to or exhibiting division into classes stratified1871 status1938 stratificational1942 1938 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 43 526 America never had a working class emerging from the status-bound guild structure. 1950 Southwestern Jrnl. Anthropol. 6 249 All this maze of levels of status, distinctive criteria, degrees and norms of social achievement, etc., has been said to make of the shtetel a most status-ridden community. 1969 Chicago Tribune 16 Nov. ix. 6/3 Her childhood with maddening, status-obsessed parents. 1998 New Yorker 26 Oct. 197/3 The motivation behind India's nuclear program is summed up neatly in this formula: it is status-driven, not threat-driven. 2008 J. Burchill in J. Burchill & C. Newkey-Burden Not in my Name 140 Their weird, status-obsessed spending habits, be it on five types of extortionately priced lettuce in a poxy salad, [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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