inferior status
collocation in Englishmeaningsofinferiorandstatus
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inferior
adjective
uk/ɪnˈfɪə.ri.ər/us/ɪnˈfɪr.i.ɚ/
not good, or not as good as someone or ...
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status
noun
uk/ˈsteɪ.təs/us/ˈsteɪ.t̬əs/
an accepted or official position, especially in a ...
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(Definition ofinferiorandstatusfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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His phallocentric theory legitimizes the disempowerment of those who have a sociallyinferiorstatus, by denigrating their demands for equality and emancipation.
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A vigorous movement challenged thisinferiorstatus, initially through small groups, then increasingly through electoral and party politics.
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Theirinferiorstatusis not a natural effect of their impairment, but it is produced by unjust social arrangements.
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Through such treatment, government conveyed to them the message that they held aninferiorstatusin the polity, despite their willingness to shoulder the obligations of civic duty.
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Both boy and girl have been used to transfer theinferiorstatusand incomplete personhood of children to adults in a low position in a hierarchy.
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Subordinate states recognize and accept theirinferiorstatusbecause doing so sustains mutually beneficial cooperation with the dominant state by minimizing the chances that either party will defect.
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The number of instances in which the woman married 'against the grain' to a man ofinferiorstatusalmost exactly matches the number in which she married 'up'.
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I cannot imagine why seamen should be given aninferiorstatus.
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Now, we have to remember that amalgamation will find him in a job of technicallyinferiorstatus, though possibly of greater responsibility.
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There is no question whatever of these units being tied to an inferior role orinferiorstatus.
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Others say that it goes too far; that it will reduce and tie down non-nuclear countries to aninferiorstatus.
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Is it not perfectly true that if we envisage an alliance of that sort we are bound to occupy an increasinglyinferiorstatus?
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One was theinferiorstatuswhich they enjoyed, and the second was the remuneration being offered.
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They are restricted in travel, pay additional taxes and haveinferiorstatusin the courts.
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We are dealing with the pathology of wounded self-esteem, a resentment ofinferiorstatusby a small, educated minority.
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