Synonyms:
footing, terms
Meaning: status with respect to the relations between people or groups; "on good terms with her in-laws"; "on a friendly footing"
Usage examples
Within two days we were, as Larry expressed it, on a war footing.
"That is another way of saying that I am placed on the footing I have indicated.
And yet, from his boyhood upward, Archie had made good his footing in Berkeley Square.
Sunfish scrambled with his feet for secure footing, found it and waded up to the front door.
Every window was filled, and the house-tops, wherever there was space for a footing, were crowded.
"They won't find this in a hurry," he asserted, as we scrambled with the utmost difficulty down to safer footing.
Keimer and I liv'd on a pretty good familiar footing, and agreed tolerably well, for he suspected nothing of my setting up.
--And equally,' said Mr Wegg, repairing the want of direct application in the last line, 'behold myself on a similar footing!'
To the North, the proportion of slaves steadily diminished although chattel servitude was on the same legal footing as in the South.
But now, in his climbing on the steep hillside, his rifle was in his left hand, downhill, and his footing, caught as he was with one foot half raised, was insecure.