official status
collocation in Englishmeaningsofofficialandstatus
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official
adjective
uk/əˈfɪʃ.əl/us/əˈfɪʃ.əl/
relating to a position ...
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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 ofofficialandstatusfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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From the standpoint of national integration and cultural identity, it's clear that higher (or sole)officialstatusfor indigenous languages is desirable.
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Though the document had noofficialstatus, it left its mark on official planning for many of its suggestions were repeated in plan after plan.
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Parent associations exist at the school, municipal and national levels, but these have noofficialstatus.
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The law has to use high-sounding terms to proclaim and stress its ownofficialstatus.
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Capitals are thus used to mark theofficialstatusof that set of words.
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There was immediate discussion about the exact arrangements of the relief expedition: in what ways should itsofficialstatusbe emphasised?
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The question is, which indigenous language or languages should haveofficialstatus?
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All other functions either directly emanate from theofficialstatusof the language, or are sanctioned by it.
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Although the languages were not givenofficialstatus, they were free to grow, thus ensuring language maintenance.
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Theirofficialstatuswas decreed in 1961 and has thus far been observed scrupulously.
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In the end, the college authorities recognized the value of student organizations and began to accord themofficialstatus, for example by granting holidays for cricket matches.
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And, as before, only the privileged members of the elite, those withofficialstatusor access to that status, were able to amass collections of any size.
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Government publishing dominated the production of imprints, yet the government rather rigidly limited access to its imprints to readers ofofficialstatus.
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How far can he divest himself of hisofficialstatusand speak as man to man?
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Some of them were designed to meet his objection that grantingofficialstatuswould militate against the language's perceived status in other legislation.
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