status quo
status quo
Definition
status quo (kwō′)
noun
the existing state of affairs (at a particular time)
Etymology: L, lit., the state in which
status quo
Law Definition
n
Latin
The situation as it
currently exists.
status quo
Usage Examples
Converse of subject
- engender: The attitude engendered by the status quo is revealed in the opinions of existing landowning interests referred to above.
Converse of object
- maintain: To maintain the status quo here was very important.
- challenge: This means that there are small numbers of men actually challenging the feminist status quo.
- defend: But time and again they unite to defend the status quo and to seek to limit progressive reform.
- upset: But err on the side of caution here as the nutty runners may upset the status quo and go mad.
Adjective modifier
- current: There is no desire to change the current status quo.
- constitutional: Peel's period as Irish Secretary saw him supporting the constitutional status quo.
- political: Student movements have always risen up against the religious and political status quo.
- economic: After all the current political system is simply a way of keep the current economic status quo and the inequalities of capitalism.
- social: For them the movement is giving voice to a social discontent with the social status quo.
- new: The new status quo has received considerable support from low inflation which has helped to moderate wage claims.
Modifies a noun
- ante: We do not see any prospect of a return to the status quo ante.
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