marital status

noun

: the state of being married or not married

—used on official forms to ask if a person is married, single, divorced, or widowed

Please enter your marital status.

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While race, class and marital status profoundly impacted women’s experience of midlife, one fact remains constant for much of the century: the absence of full adult status under the law. —

Matthew Redmond, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2025 Start a dummy return using correct ages and marital status. —

William Baldwin, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024 Likely voters are based on a probabilistic statistical model that relies on past vote history, interest in the current election, age, education, race, ethnicity, church attendance, and marital status. —

Victoria Balara, Fox News, 30 Oct. 2024 This is the person who should pay, in most cases, regardless of wealth or marital status. —

Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 13 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for marital status

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