Status Quo Definition

kwō
noun
The existing state of affairs (at a particular time)
Webster's New World
The situation as it currently exists.
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Other Word Forms of Status Quo

Noun

Singular:
status quo
Plural:
status-quos

Origin of Status Quo

  • From Latin status (“state”) (sometimes used in the ablative statu) + quō (“in which”), the ablative of quī (“which”). From the Latin in statu quō ante bellum erat (“the way it was before the war”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin status quō state in which status state quō in which ablative of quī which

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Status Quo Sentence Examples

  • There is no desire to change the current status quo.

  • Student movements have always risen up against the religious and political status quo.

  • For them the movement is giving voice to a social discontent with the social status quo.

  • The attitude engendered by the status quo is revealed in the opinions of the existing landowning interests referred to above.

  • But time and again they unite to defend the status quo and to seek to limit progressive reform.

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Words Starting With

SSTSTA

Words Ending With

OUOQUO

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status quo

Words Starting With S and Ending With O

Starts With S & Ends With OStarts With ST & Ends With OStarts With S & Ends With UO

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10 Letter Words10 Letter Words Starting With S10 Letter Words Ending With O