Usually means: Existing state of affairs maintained.
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  1. status quo, the status quo: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. status quo: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. status quo: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. status quo, the status quo: Collins English Dictionary
  5. status quo: Vocabulary.com
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  7. the status quo: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. status quo: Wiktionary
  9. status quo: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. status quo: Infoplease Dictionary
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  12. Status Quo (Jerusalem and Bethlehem), Status Quo (band), Status Quo (disambiguation), Status Quo, Status quo (Holy Land sites), Status quo (Israel), Status quo, The Status Quo: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Status quo: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
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  4. Status quo: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
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  6. Status Quo (band), status quo: Legal dictionary
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  1. status quo: Political
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  1. status quo: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (status quo)

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

Similar:
status in quo, status, state of affairs, situation, rule, normal, thusness, pass, condition, state, more...

Opposite:
change, revolution, upheaval

Types:
way things are, more...

Phrases:
status quo ante, the status quo, status in quo, Status quo ante bellum, Status quo bias, more...

Adjectives:
individual, substantive, normative, norman, normie, positive, normal, objective, self-consistent, conformative, selfe

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Similar:
status in quo, status, state of affairs, situation, rule, normal, thusness, pass, condition, state, more...

Opposite:
change, revolution, upheaval

Types:
way things are, more...

Phrases:
status quo ante, the status quo, status in quo, Status quo ante bellum, Status quo bias, Status Quo discography, Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo, Stick to the Status Quo, more...

Adjectives:
individual, substantive, normative, norman, normie, positive, normal, objective, self-consistent, conformative, selfe

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     taupe,     olive,     charcoal, more...



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