(sociology) A social status that is the primary socially identifying characteristic of an individual, such as being the queen.

plural of status bar

(law) A meeting that a court may require to be held between parties to a case to determine whether those parties are prepared to go to trial.

plural of status conference

The state of things; the way things are, as opposed to the way they could be; the existing state of affairs.

(aviation, travel) An updated notice of a flight's departure and arrival times compared to its scheduled times.

Synonym of construct state

what's up?

(medicine) A serious and potentially life-threatening condition in which an epileptic seizure becomes prolonged or multiple seizures occur successively without regaining of functions interictally.

(medicine) An acute exacerbation of asthma which does not respond to standard treatments of bronchodilators and steroids.