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status quo
[ kwoh ]
noun
- the existing state or condition.
status quo
/ kwəʊ /
noun
- the status quothe existing state of affairs
status quo
- The existing order of things; present customs, practices, and power relations: “People with money are often content with the status quo.” From Latin , meaning “the state in which.”
Word History and Origins
Origin of status quo1
Word History and Origins
Origin of status quo1
Idioms and Phrases
The existing condition or state of affairs, as in We don't want to admit more singers to the chorus; we like the status quo . This term, Latin for “state in which,” has been used in English since the early 1800s.Example Sentences
It will soon prove too expensive to maintain the status quo.
Many of the people that seemed to have been drawn to it, at least in my world, for whatever reason couldn’t fit into the status quo.
Ronald Reagan, the original Republican disrupter of the political status quo, was good at talking to these voters.
In the 1980s, companies and investors around the world mobilized to deny apartheid South Africa the economic lifeline it needed to maintain its status quo of racial oppression.
If the status quo prevails, San Diego Community Power will use the grid infrastructure of SDG&E, whose corporate owner, Sempra Energy, is committed to international investments in liquid natural gas.
When the problem is already political, when the intolerable situation is the status quo?
Defenders of the status quo claim the old rules protect consumers.
Nothing,” Klein notes, “was more threatening to the education status quo in New York City than our charter school initiative.
This is why “originalism” is so beloved of cultural conservatives: All it really means is “keep the status quo.”
This sick status quo is a result of the rigged system of redistricting.
Could we be unfederated to-morrow, the status quo ante would be restored the day after, beyond the shadow of a doubt.
In these circumstances the British representatives were lucky to secure peace on the basis of the status quo ante.
The sphinx is mobility itself compared with Mrs. Wilson's intense preservation of her status quo.
It might have been unsafe to indulge in speculation, based on the then status quo, as to when the inevitable was going to happen.
Rather, if anything, it pointed to a gradual resumption of his status quo of a few days ago.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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