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status zer0

status zer0 noun: of youth, the status of having no employment and not being enrolled in any educational or training program.

Noun (1)

status zer0 (uncountable)

  1. (UK, dated) Of youth, the status of having no employment and not being enrolled in any educational or training program.
    • A cursory comparison of status zer0 young people from two neighbouring, but contrasting localities illuminates not only important similarities amongst status zer0 young people but also some striking differences: in backgrounds, support networks, attitudes and anticipated futures.1997, Howard Williamson, Youth and policy: contexts and consequences, →ISBN
    • At their most desperate or resourceful, young women who are status zer0 survive through the criminal economy and in many cases through prostitution.2004, Anita Harris, Future Girl: Young Women in the Twenty-First Century, →ISBN

Noun (2) capitalized: Status Zer0

Status Zer0 (uncountable)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of status zer0.
    • An effective analysis of some of the structural limitations that exist in people's lives with particular reference to the problems experienced by Status Zer0 youth.2000, Stephen Miles, Youth Lifestyles In A Changing World, →ISBN, page 43
    • So few young people found employment they are almost immaterial to the analysis. For the purposes of this paper, one critical finding was that two-fifths of these young people experienced Status Zer0 for six months or more (an arbitrary cut-off point, but a pertinent one nonetheless, since it...2006, Robert Macdonald, Youth, The 'Underclass' and Social Exclusion, →ISBN, page 74

Forms of status zer0

alternative formStatus Zer0
alternative formstatus zero

Questions about status zer0

What does status zer0 mean?
Status zer0 means of youth, the status of having no employment and not being enrolled in any educational or training program.
What part of speech is status zer0?
Status zer0 is a noun.

Words near status zer0 in the dictionary

  1. status reports
  2. status strip
  3. status strips
  4. status symbol
  5. status symbols
  6. status zer0
  7. status zero
  8. statuses
  9. statuses quo
  10. statusful
  11. statusless

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