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status zer0 en · NOUN

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1. (UK, dated, uncountable) Of youth, the status of having no employment and not being enrolled in any educational or training program.
   • What was particularly disturbing in the data is that, of those in 'status zer0', 'long-term' members far outnumbered the 'short-termers' who had spent less than six months out of work and learning - only 6 out of the 402 sample (Istance et al., 1994, p. 53). 2004, Peter Dwyer, Johanna Wyn, Youth, Education and Risk: Facing the Future, →ISBN, page 40:
   • At their most desperate or resourceful, young women who are status zer0 survive through the criminal economy and in many cases through prostitution. 2004, Anita Harris, Future Girl: Young Women in the Twenty-First Century, →ISBN:
   • A cursory comparison of status zer0 young people from two neighbouring, but contrasting localities illuminates not only important similarities amongst status zer0 young people but also some striking differences: in backgrounds, support networks, attitudes and anticipated futures. 1997, Howard Williamson, Youth and policy: contexts and consequences, →ISBN:

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