Status-quo definition

kwō

The existing condition or state of affairs.

noun

The existing state of affairs (at a particular time)

noun

The state of things; the way things are, as opposed to the way they could be; the existing state of affairs.

noun

The situation as it currently exists.

noun

The definition of status quo is the current political or social conditions.

An example of status quo is that the U.S. government is in debt.

An example of status quo is the common sense of a period of time.

An example of status quo is the economic conditions of a particular class at a particular period of history.

noun

Other Word Forms

Singular:

status-quo

Plural:

status-quos

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
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”).

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