status seeking

1. 1.

   a drive to acquire power

   Synonymspower hunger

   Broaderambition

Questions about status seeking

What does status seeking mean?

status seeking means "a drive to acquire power".

What is another word for status seeking?

Close synonyms include power hunger. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is status seeking a common word?

status seeking is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.