achieved status

noun

Sociology.

1. the social position a person gains as a result of personal effort.

Word History and Origins

Origin of achieved status¹

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

Arbuckle achieved status last season in his first year as a full-time college coach.

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As she achieved status and recognition, she encouraged and mentored other women.

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And so Ruan and his team created the world’s whitest paint - a title it recently earned in the Guinness World Records book, a never achieved status.

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South Korean men serving their mandatory military service dream of this nostalgic snack, and in North Korea, it has achieved status as a black-market good that gets resold at inflated prices.

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The original “Starship Troopers” looked at a futuristic society in which humans achieved status by imposing their military will on so-called “Bugs,” a kind of Other from a distant planet.

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