statuses
STAY-tuhs-iz/ˈsteɪ.təs.ɪz/
- 1Plural of status.
The database tracks the statuses of thousands of pending applications.
Several legal statuses apply to newcomers depending on the type of visa they hold.
Note
A regular English plural, formed with -es the way bus becomes buses, rather than with any borrowed classical ending. It appears wherever status names something countable: the legal conditions a person or thing may hold, the standing of several people measured against one another, or the short messages instant-messaging users post for contacts to see when they try to get in touch.
statuses is a form of status
status, noun: The current condition of a situation or set of affairs. Full entry
- Forms
- status also pluralstatuses plural
- Spelling
- status → statuses: add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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