单词 | status |
释义 | status /stay"teuhs, stat"euhs/, n. 1. the position of an individual in relation to another or others, esp. in regard to social or professional standing. 2. state or condition of affairs: Arbitration has failed to change the status of the disagreement. 3. Law. the standing of a person before the law. adj. 4. conferring or believed to confer elevated status: a status car; a status job. [1665-75; < L: the condition of standing, stature, status, equiv. to sta- (var. s. of stare to STAND) + -tus suffix of v. action] Syn. 2. See state. |
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