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LEGAL STATUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does legal status mean?
• LEGAL STATUS (noun)
The noun LEGAL STATUS has 1 sense:
1. a status defined by law
Familiarity information: LEGAL STATUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A status defined by law
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("legal status" is a kind of...):
position; status (the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "legal status"):
civil death (the legal status of a person who is alive but who has been deprived of the rights and privileges of a citizen or a member of society; the legal status of one sentenced to life imprisonment)
villainage; villeinage (the legal status or condition of servitude of a villein or feudal serf)
citizenship (the status of a citizen with rights and duties)
marital status (the condition of being married or unmarried)
Context examples
A person under the age of majority who has been granted the legal status of adulthood.
(Emancipated Minor, NCI Thesaurus)
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