Noun

(en-noun)

A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.

Prestige or high standing.

* 1957 , Gladys Sellew and Paul Hanly Furfey, Sociology and Its Use in Nursing Service , Saunders, page 81

The king has status' in his kingdom, and the pauper has ' status within his immediate group of peers.

A situation or state of affairs.

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(label) The legal condition of a person or thing.

# The state (of a Canadian Indian) of being registered under the .

He is a status Indian.

(label) 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.

Noun

(priorities)

An item's relative importance.

He set his e-mail message's priority to high.

A goal of a person or an organisation.

She needs to get her priorities straight and stop playing games.

(taxonomy, of a name) A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.

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Neither [Jones] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our "science" to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish newspapers almost a century and a half old in order to establish "priority ."

(obsolete) Precedence; superior rank.

* 1608 , , I. i. 244:

Follow Cominius. We must follow you. / Right worthy you priority.