PRESTIGE


Meaning of PRESTIGE in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

great

But, according to Williams, this argument gives utilitarian methods greater prestige and a greater role in decision-making than they actually deserve.

Such organizations provide opportunities to work with well-known attorneys on major cases for major clients and carry great prestige .

Traditionally, public university degrees have carried far greater social prestige .

It has great prestige , both nationally and internationally.

Any hopes, however, that Eisenhower would use his great prestige to restrain McCarthy were soon dashed.

Some firms may have grown in an unplanned, unforeseen manner, others may have expanded in order to acquire greater prestige and so on.

But the greater the prestige and reputation of an institution, the more it will recruit from the upper echelons of society.

high

Children are forced into the rat race for higher salary and prestige .

For most estimators, advancement takes the form of higher pay and prestige .

The position of leader-manager in the kibbutz carries authority, and commands high prestige .

Voluntary work tends to carry higher prestige than paid work.

international

Other forms of information are required for the purposes of international prestige .

personal

Clearly Oswiu experienced a tremendous increase in personal power and prestige following his victory at the Winwaed.

To present his policy to the outside world and defuse opposition to it, he made brilliant use of his personal prestige .

By virtue of his unique personal prestige , he himself was relatively insulated from the pressure of public opinion.

Roosevelt failed to put his personal prestige behind it and discrimination continued, especially in the South.

Pride, even personal prestige , were also at stake.

social

Since women in general have less social prestige than men, this in itself tends to reinforce negative attitudes to the elderly.

In many similar households, sons of some social prestige and standing were at least nominally subject to their fathers' authority.

Traditionally, public university degrees have carried far greater social prestige .

The wealthy Detroit property developer of shopping malls enjoyed the social prestige of owning the world's largest auction house.

Economic reward, political power and social prestige all flow from the structure of classes.

University-trained lawyers dominated the civil service but only the highest posts gave social prestige .

■ NOUN

project

Revenue can then be switched to other items, such as military hardware, or so-called prestige projects .

They will also switch spending from their day-to-day Budgets to rail, road, communications and other prestige projects .

■ VERB

carry

Traditionally, public university degrees have carried far greater social prestige .

Such organizations provide opportunities to work with well-known attorneys on major cases for major clients and carry great prestige .

Voluntary work tends to carry higher prestige than paid work.

enhance

The victory at Sluys enhanced Edward's military prestige , but he was unable to follow it up.

Law professor Derek Bell has even argued that black intellectuals disavow militants in order to enhance their prestige with whites.

The sums that will pass through them ought surely to enhance their prestige , and at a symbolic time.

enjoy

The wealthy Detroit property developer of shopping malls enjoyed the social prestige of owning the world's largest auction house.

Most of the good performers in the international search companies enjoy the prestige of being part of a large firm.

gain

Because of this, a household obliged to sponsor many feasts gains no prestige , but becomes rather an object of pity.

lose

But the court has lost some of its prestige , Broussard said.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Becoming a film star confers status, power, prestige and wealth.

Hosting the Olympic Games would add to our country's international prestige .

Many are worried the current scandal could damage the mayor's prestige .

The teaching profession has lost the prestige it had in former times.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Are these professors really more substantially more knowledgeable, there, is there substantially more prestige attached to this?

But secondly, it is once more a means by which prestige and honour can be maintained.

In the second place, hypercorrection often involves imitating what is thought to be prestige language.

One after the other the towers of prestige and glamour were falling to him.

Over a million square feet of prestige industrial and commercial premises under construction or being planned.

The objects of competition varied: the traditional ones were territory, wealth, prestige and the power which these gave.

The Olympic prestige attached to his sport made it impossible for him to walk away.

II. adjective

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

champagne, caviar, truffles and other prestige goods

There are always prestige neighbourhoods where only the wealthy or successful can afford to live.

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