respectability noun
ADJ. international The country has again achieved international respectability after years of isolation. | bourgeois, middle-class, working-class | academic, intellectual, political, scientific
VERB + RESPECTABILITY achieve, gain The theory has now gained scientific respectability. | give sth
PHRASES an air/a facade/a veneer of respectability
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