Status (Latin plural: ''statūs''), is a state, condition, or situation, and may refer to:
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Status (law)
Legal status describes the legal rights, duties and obligations of a person or entity, or a subset of those rights and obligations. (defining "status") The term may be used to describe a person's legal condition with respect to personal rights, bu ...
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Legal status
Legal status describes the legal rights, duties and obligations of a person or Legal person, entity, or a subset of those rights and obligations. (defining "status") The term may be used to describe a person's legal condition with respect to perso ...
, in law
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Political status, in international law
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Small entity status, in patent law
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Status conference
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Status crime
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Marital status
Civil status, or marital status, are the distinct options that describe a person's relationship with a significant other. '' Married'', '' single'', '' divorced'', and ''widowed'' are examples of civil status.
''Civil status'' and ''marital st ...
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Observer status
Observer status is a privilege granted by some organizations to non-members to give them an ability to participate in the organization's activities. Observer status is often granted by intergovernmental organizations (IGO) to non-member parties and ...
, in international organizations
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Senior status
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Social status
Social status is the relative level of social value a person is considered to possess. Such social value includes respect, honour, honor, assumed competence, and deference. On one hand, social scientists view status as a "reward" for group members ...
, in sociology
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Achieved status
Achieved status is a concept developed by the anthropologist Ralph Linton for a social position that a person can acquire on the basis of merit and is earned or chosen through one's own effort. It is the opposite of ascribed status and reflects ...
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Ascribed status
Ascribed status is a term used in sociology that refers to the social status of a person that is assigned at birth or assumed involuntarily later in life. The status is a position that is neither earned by the person nor chosen for them. It is g ...
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Master status
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Socioeconomic status
Socioeconomic status (SES) is a measurement used by economics, economists and sociology, sociologsts. The measurement combines a person's work experience and their or their family's access to economic resources and social position in relation t ...
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Sociometric status
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Status attainment
Status attainment refers to the process through which individuals achieve their positions within society, including their social class. This process is influenced by both ''achieved factors'', such as educational attainment and career accomplis ...
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Status offense
A status offense is an action that is prohibited only to a certain class of people, and most often applied only to crimes committed by minors.
In the United States, the term status offense also refers to an offense such as a traffic violation ...
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Status shift
Social status is the relative level of social value a person is considered to possess. Such social value includes respect, honor, assumed competence, and deference. On one hand, social scientists view status as a "reward" for group members who tre ...
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Status constructus
In Afro-Asiatic languages, the first noun in a genitive phrase that consists of a possessed noun followed by a possessor noun often takes on a special morphological form, which is termed the construct state (Latin ''status constructus''). For ...
, a noun form
* Status match, in
frequent-flyer loyalty programs
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Status quo
is a Latin phrase meaning the existing state of affairs, particularly with regard to social, economic, legal, environmental, political, religious, scientific or military issues. In the sociological sense, the ''status quo'' refers to the curren ...
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Status symbol
A status symbol is a visible, external symbol of one's social position, an indicator of Wealth, economic or social status. Many luxury goods are often considered status symbols. ''Status symbol'' is also a Sociology, sociological term – as part ...
Arts, entertainment, and media
* ''Status'', a magazine edited by
Igor Cassini
Count Igor Cassini Loiewski (September 15, 1915 – January 5, 2002) was a Russian-American syndicated gossip columnist for the Hearst newspaper chain. He was one of the journalists to write the '' Cholly Knickerbocker'' column.
Career
He was ...
* ''Status'', a news site by
Oliver Darcy
Oliver Darcy (born August 20, 1990) is an American journalist, author of the newsletter ''Status'', and former senior media reporter at CNN.
Career
Darcy was the politics editor at ''Business Insider'' and deputy managing editor at '' The Blaz ...
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Recurring status
Recurring status is a class of actors that perform on U.S. soap operas. Recurring status performers consistently act in less than three episodes out of a five-day work week, and receive a certain sum for each episode in which they appear. This i ...
, in acting
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Status effect
In role-playing games, a status effect is a temporary modification to a game character’s original set of stats that usually comes into play when special powers and abilities (such as spells) are used, often during combat. It appears in numero ...
, in gaming
Computing
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Exit status
In computing, the exit status (also exit code or exit value) of a terminated process is an integer number that is made available to its parent process (or caller). In DOS, this may be referred to as an errorlevel.
When computer programs ar ...
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HTTP status codes, a type of server response on the web
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Process state
In a multitasking computer system, processes may occupy a variety of states. These distinct states may not be recognized as such by the operating system kernel. However, they are a useful abstraction for the understanding of processes.
Prim ...
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Status bar
A status bar is a graphical control element which poses an information area typically found at the Window (computing), window's bottom.
It can be divided into sections to group information. Its job is primarily to display information about the c ...
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Status message (instant messaging)
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Status register
A status register, flag register, or condition code register (CCR) is a collection of status Flag (computing), flag bits for a Central processing unit, processor. Examples of such registers include FLAGS register (computing), FLAGS register in the ...
, in computer science
Religion
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Oratory status, in churches
Science and healthcare
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Abundance (ecology)
In ecology, local abundance is the relative representation of a species in a particular ecosystem. It is usually measured as the number of individuals found per sample. The ratio of abundance of one species to one or multiple other species livin ...
of taxa or biota
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Conservation status
The conservation status of a group of organisms (for instance, a species) indicates whether the group still exists and how likely the group is to become extinct in the near future. Many factors are taken into account when assessing conservation ...
of a species
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HIV test
HIV tests are used to detect the presence of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes HIV/AIDS, in serum, saliva, or urine. Such tests may detect antibodies, antigens, or RNA.
AIDS diagnosis
AIDS is diagnosed separate ...
(HIV Status)
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Performance status, in medicine
Technology
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HTC Status, or HTC ChaCha, Android smartphone by HTC
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Status tones, in telecommunication
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Condition (disambiguation)
Condition or conditions may refer to:
In philosophy and logic
* Material conditional, a logical connective used to form "if...then..." statements
* Necessary and sufficient condition, a statement which is true if and only if another given state ...
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Situation (disambiguation)
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State (disambiguation)
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