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Definition of Marital status
1. Noun. The condition of being married or unmarried.
Generic synonyms: Legal Status
Specialized synonyms: Marriage, Matrimony, Spousal Relationship, Union, Wedlock, Civil Union, Bachelorhood, Spinsterhood, Widowhood
Definition of Marital status
1. Noun. One of several discrete options describing a person's relationship with a significant other. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Marital status
1. A demographic parameter indicating a person's status with respect to marriage, divorce, widowhood, singleness, etc. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Marital Status
Literary usage of Marital status
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Homelessness: Programs and the People They Serve: Findings of the National by Martha R. Burt (1999)
"... US adult population calculated from the Bureau of the Census (1977a), table 14.
Wote: Numbers do not sum to 100 percent due to rounding. marital status ..."
2. Tools to Manage Vegetation and Fuels: A Consumer Guideby David L. Peterson by David L. Peterson (2008)
"marital status The data on marital status were derived from answers to ...
The marital status classification refers to the status at the time of enumeration ..."
3. Population Profile of the U.S., 1997 by Andrea Curry, Karen Mills, Janice Valdisera (2000)
"... never married tripled from 5 percent to 13 percent for women and from 7 percent
to 21 percent for men. marital status and Living Arrangements Terry A. ..."
4. Drug Use Among U.S. Workers: Prevalence and Trends by Occupation and by John P. Hoffman (1996)
"... by Occupation, Industry, Gender, and marital status This chapter provides the
rates of illicit drug and heavy alcohol use among full-time workers, ..."
5. Fertility, Family Planning, and Women's Health: New Data From the 1995 by Joyce C. Abma, A. Chandra, W. Mosher, L. Peterson (1998)
"For each completed pregnancy, it is defined as the respondent's formal (legal)
marital status at the approximate time when her pregnancy was conceived, ..."
6. The City: Urban Communities and Their Problems by Alan S. Berger (1978)
"These data on gender and marital status help us see why the city must deal ...
Since singles are more likely to rent than to buy, the marital status of a ..."
7. Gender, Land and Livelihoods in East Africa: Through Farmers' Eyes by Ritu Verma (2001)
"These personal circumstances are differentiated by marital status, class, ...
marital status Marriage is an important channel by which both women and men ..."
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