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English
Noun
status zer0 (uncountable)
- (UK, dated, of youth) A status of having no employment and not in any educational or training programme.
1997, Howard Williamson, Youth and policy: contexts and consequences, →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.
2004, Anita Harris, Future Girl: Young Women in the Twenty-First Century, →ISBN:At their most desperate or resourceful, young women who are status zer0 survive through the criminal economy and in many cases through prostitution.
2004, Peter Dwyer, Johanna Wyn, Youth, Education and Risk: Facing the Future, →ISBN, page 40: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).
Usage notes
- In Britain, the use of this term is being phased out in favor of the less pejorative-sounding acronym NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training).