Definition of marital status Marital status
We found 3 definitions of marital status from 3 different sources.
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What does marital status mean?
WordNet
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| marital status - the condition of being married or unmarried | ||
| legal status a status defined by law | ||
| jurisprudence, law the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | ||
| spousal relationship, wedlock, matrimony, marriage, union the ceremony or sacrament of marriage | ||
| civil union a voluntary union for life (or until divorce) of adult parties of the same sex; "parties to a civil union have all the same benefits, protections, and responsibilities under Vermont law as spouses in a marriage" | ||
| bachelorhood the state of being an unmarried man | ||
| spinsterhood the state of being a spinster (usually an elderly unmarried woman) | ||
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Wiktionary 
- marital status (Noun)
One of several discrete options describing a person's relationship with a significant other.
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marital status
The standing of an individual with regard to a legally recognized conjugal relationship, either in the present or past.
