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prestige

[ US /pɹɛˈstiʒ/ ]
[ UK /pɹɛstˈiːʒ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a high standing achieved through success or influence or wealth etc.
    he wanted to achieve power and prestige

How To Use prestige In A Sentence

  • It brings prestige to Scotland on a shoestring, and a great deal is done by people for whom it's a crusade, not a job.
  • How many more risks to our interests, to our prestige, and to our people are we to take?
  • And someone of considerable power and prestige like himtaking a career-ruiningride on the "anti-lobby" haywagon is the FIRST STEP in getting our government back .... Obama's First Big Mistake on the Job: Rescuing Sen. Joe Lieberman
  • Why would someone who is caught up in prestige want to work at a University where connections count for more than accomplishment or ability?
  • His flair and showmanship won new audiences and gained the theatre great prestige.
  • There will be no more duplicity, crookedness, and desire for name, fame, and prestige.
  • These positions are greatly coveted and carry high prestige. MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
  • To Slegge's annoyance, he very soon found that if the prestige of the school was to be kept up Glyn and Singh must be in the eleven, for the former in a very short time was acknowledged to be the sharpest bowler in the school, while, from long practice together, Singh was an admirable wicket-keeper -- one who laughed at gloves and pads, was utterly without fear, and had, as Wrench said -- he being a great admirer of a game in which he never had a chance to play -- "a nye like a nork. Glyn Severn's Schooldays
  • The crude items of every day use that were the few meager processions of the poor have become the prestige consumption of the affluent.
  • National prestige is going to carry us to the next star system? Why Space? Why Now? - NASA Watch
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