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单词 low-status
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Definition of low-status in English:

low-status

adjective
  • Ranking low in a social or professional hierarchy.

    low-paid, low-status jobs
    low-status peasants and slaves
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is hard, back-breaking, low-status work.
    • Salted meats and fish were considered low-status ingredients, appropriate for labourers but not for nobles, and certainly not worthy enough to be treated with spices.
    • The dominance behavior occurs when a low-status gorilla wanders into a higher-status gorilla's personal space, and it consists of an escalating series of aggressive displays until the low-status gorilla is scared off.
    • Reily's informants were unskilled labourers, employed in low-status, poorly paid, menial jobs.
    • Extraordinary transformations were taking place in Britain between the ninth century and the eleventh, which were changing the lives of both lords and their low-status dependants.
    • Marxist feminists note how women in the contemporary labor market are mostly in low paid, low-status jobs.
    • While second-generation girls found a somewhat broader range of occupations as early as 1880, immigrant women made their contribution by toiling in low-status, arduous work.
    • In post-Reformation Europe the role of nurse, with its close association with the dead and the dying, was generally regarded as a low-status occupation.
    • You don't need to thank the umpires or ballboys; they're too low-status to bother with.
    • Women are still more often found in low-status, low-paid jobs with little opportunity for career development and can find it harder to get promotion than men.
    • Very broadly speaking, in most armies the low-status pioneers, sometimes not even regarded as soldiers, did the work and the engineers got the credit.
    • The average guy with a low-status job is only modestly more dateable in women's eyes than the average guy with no job at all.
    • In the mid-twentieth century journalism evolved from a low-status trade to a higher-status profession.
    • The expansion of higher education would turn vocational apprenticeships into a low-status dumping ground for less able youngsters.
    • Many parents do not want their eligible students in a program that places them in a low-status job, which they view as a stigma.
    • They are low-status, powerless groups whom the dominant majority see as problematic or distasteful.
    • Family duty and the sheer necessity of self-support obliged most to endure low-status drudge work.
    • Because buying good grapes and experimenting with different blends doesn't pay off, low-status wineries cut back on spending.
    • Paradoxically, young women's low-status work as servants took them out of working-class residential areas.
    • My on-stage character is this low-status, slightly vulnerable idiot.
    Synonyms
    unskilled, lowly, humble, low-grade, routine, humdrum, boring, dull

Definition of low-status in US English:

low-status

adjective
  • Ranking low in a social or professional hierarchy.

    low-paid, low-status jobs
    low-status peasants and slaves
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The average guy with a low-status job is only modestly more dateable in women's eyes than the average guy with no job at all.
    • Salted meats and fish were considered low-status ingredients, appropriate for labourers but not for nobles, and certainly not worthy enough to be treated with spices.
    • Paradoxically, young women's low-status work as servants took them out of working-class residential areas.
    • They are low-status, powerless groups whom the dominant majority see as problematic or distasteful.
    • Reily's informants were unskilled labourers, employed in low-status, poorly paid, menial jobs.
    • Marxist feminists note how women in the contemporary labor market are mostly in low paid, low-status jobs.
    • You don't need to thank the umpires or ballboys; they're too low-status to bother with.
    • While second-generation girls found a somewhat broader range of occupations as early as 1880, immigrant women made their contribution by toiling in low-status, arduous work.
    • Very broadly speaking, in most armies the low-status pioneers, sometimes not even regarded as soldiers, did the work and the engineers got the credit.
    • The dominance behavior occurs when a low-status gorilla wanders into a higher-status gorilla's personal space, and it consists of an escalating series of aggressive displays until the low-status gorilla is scared off.
    • Extraordinary transformations were taking place in Britain between the ninth century and the eleventh, which were changing the lives of both lords and their low-status dependants.
    • Because buying good grapes and experimenting with different blends doesn't pay off, low-status wineries cut back on spending.
    • My on-stage character is this low-status, slightly vulnerable idiot.
    • In post-Reformation Europe the role of nurse, with its close association with the dead and the dying, was generally regarded as a low-status occupation.
    • Women are still more often found in low-status, low-paid jobs with little opportunity for career development and can find it harder to get promotion than men.
    • The expansion of higher education would turn vocational apprenticeships into a low-status dumping ground for less able youngsters.
    • Many parents do not want their eligible students in a program that places them in a low-status job, which they view as a stigma.
    • In the mid-twentieth century journalism evolved from a low-status trade to a higher-status profession.
    • Family duty and the sheer necessity of self-support obliged most to endure low-status drudge work.
    • It is hard, back-breaking, low-status work.
    Synonyms
    unskilled, lowly, humble, low-grade, routine, humdrum, boring, dull
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