Status-quo meaning

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

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The existing condition or state of affairs.
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The existing state of affairs (at a particular time)
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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”).

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.

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

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

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