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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Jobs that were physically demanding before retirement had a negative effect on the mental health of those in the middle-income group – this effect persisted even after accounting for gender, education, marital status, and age.
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New Atlas, 20 Sep. 2025
Baker returned to school in the depths of the Great Depression to earn a library science degree and began to hunt for a job in 1934, an effort hampered, Regina Sierra Carter writes in her dissertation on Baker, by her race, gender, marital status, and the economy.
—April White, JSTOR Daily, 15 Sep. 2025
However, the biggest change comes in Lady Mary's marital status.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Sep. 2025
But Swift was already in a loving, healthy relationship with Kelce in 2024, and their marital status doesn’t change that.
—Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
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New Atlas, 20 Sep. 2025
Baker returned to school in the depths of the Great Depression to earn a library science degree and began to hunt for a job in 1934, an effort hampered, Regina Sierra Carter writes in her dissertation on Baker, by her race, gender, marital status, and the economy.
—April White, JSTOR Daily, 15 Sep. 2025
However, the biggest change comes in Lady Mary's marital status.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Sep. 2025
But Swift was already in a loving, healthy relationship with Kelce in 2024, and their marital status doesn’t change that.
—Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for marital status
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“Marital status.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/marital%20status. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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