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LOWER STATUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lower status mean?
• LOWER STATUS (noun)
The noun LOWER STATUS has 1 sense:
1. the state of being inferior
Familiarity information: LOWER STATUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The state of being inferior
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
inferiority; lower rank; lower status
Hypernyms ("lower status" is a kind of...):
low status; lowliness; lowness (a position of inferior status; low in station or rank or fortune or estimation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lower status"):
backseat (a secondary or inferior position or status)
shade (a position of relative inferiority)
subordinateness; subsidiarity (secondary importance)
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