status quo

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[edit] Etymology

From Latin status ("state") + quō ("in which") , the ablative of quī ("which"). From the Latin stātus quō ante bellum erat (the way things were before the war)

[edit] Noun

Singular
status quo

Plural
status quos

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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