status quo

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From Latin status (state); (NB the ablative "statu" is the correct form) + quō (in which), the ablative of quī (which). From the Latin in statu quō ante bellum erat (the way it was before the war)

[edit] Noun

status quo (plural status quos)

  1. 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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