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单词 non-status
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non-statusadj.n.

Brit. /nɒnˈsteɪtəs/, U.S. /nɑnˈsteɪdəs/, /nɑnˈstædəs/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: non- prefix, status n. and adj.
Etymology: < non- prefix + status n. and adj.
A. adj.
1.
a. That does not have status, esp. social or professional status.
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1945 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 39 537 There was in each a corps of career officers appointed in almost any fashion and surrounded by temporary, non-status assistants.
1964 Asian Surv. 4 676 A principal difficulty remains of how to persuade urbanized young men to accept non-status occupations.
1983 Washington Post (Nexis) 16 Sept. b2 Uniformed Services University in Bethesda wants medical technologists, nonstatus jobs [etc.].
2001 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 13 May xi. 1/3 Throw out your American Kennel Club breeder's guide!.. The nonstatus dog has become the status dog.
b. Finance. Of a mortgage loan: granted without the mortgagor providing the usual guarantees of financial status, and usually entailing a larger deposit or higher interest rate than normal.
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1985 What Mortgage June 3 (advt.) Investment properties. Long Term Funding. Non-status considered.]
1986 Times (Nexis) 31 Aug. The Premier High Equity Mortgage Scheme provides in essence non-status mortgages between £50,000 and £250,000 at a variable interest rate.
1992 Do It Yourself Sept. 53 Another possibility is a non-status mortgage, which is similar [to a self-certified mortgage], but no checks of any kind are made.
1999 What Mortgage Nov. 24/1 (advt.) Full status loans are those where proof of income is required; non-status loans are granted without the lender making enquiries as to your income or credit history.
2. Canadian. Designating or relating to a person of Canadian Indian descent who is not registered as a Canadian Indian under the Indian Act.
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1968 E. R. McEwen Community Devel. Services for Canad. Indian & Metis Communities 21 In Alberta, a Federation of the native organizations including both the status and non-status Indians was formed this year.
1982 Internat. Migration Rev. 16 505 At least as many non-status Indians and Inuits as those with status live in Canada but are not recognized by federal authorities.
1988 D. Carpenter God's Bedfellows i. 10 Today we would probably call Noel and his family non-status or non-treaty, but in those days Father called them bush people.
1994 W. A. Bogart Courts & Country v. 142 The children of such unions were also classified as non-status.
2000 Maclean's (Electronic ed.) 31 July The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Métis and non-status Indians can legally be excluded from sharing in the profits of government-owned casinos in Ontario.
B. n.
A lack of status, prestige, or importance; irrelevance.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > relevance or pertinence > [noun] > irrelevancy
impertinency1569
irrelevancy1592
impertinence1616
inapplicability1673
inconsequentness1727
inapplicationa1806
inconsequence1842
irrelevance1842
far-fetchednessa1849
inconsequentiality1850
inappositeness1893
inconsequentialism1893
inconsequentialness1931
non-status1964
1964 N.Y. Times 16 Feb. 94/5 (headline) Gallagher Brooks no nonsense about non-status for Newark. Are the airlines trying to downgrade Newark to the status of a non-city?
1986 Los Angeles Times (Electronic ed.) 14 Oct. Romero never complained of his seeming non-status, although he admits he felt as useless as an appendix.
1997 C. Shields Larry's Party (1998) vii. 122 How, considering their ignorance and non-status, was it possible for them to get even a rudimentary purchase on the continuum of goodness and evil, to reflect on its meaning and to direct themselves so purely, so persistently, toward moral perfection?
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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