Ladder
Ladder noun - A scheme of rank or order.
Usage example: their team placed third on the tournament ladder
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Status and ladder are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Status" instead a noun "Ladder".
Nearby Words: laddering, laddered
Status
Status noun - Position with regard to conditions and circumstances.
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Synonyms for Status
Nearby Word: state
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- Something that just isn't done since Riki is a "mongrel", disenfranchised with no hope of climbing the social ladder and owning Pets indicate one's social status.
Source: Loophole Abuse / Anime and Manga - Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances, a dissatisfied woman seeking to vault up the social ladder from her lowly upper-middle class retiree status, who fails miserably and humiliatingly.
Source: Social Climber -
The Sims 2 has the Culinary career, which starts you off in one of these and has you work your way up the ladder to Celebrity Chef status.
Source: Burger Fool
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