status quo

noun
/ˌsteɪ.təs ˈkwəʊ/UK/ˌstæt.əs ˈkwoʊ/CA/ˌsteɪ.təs ˈkwoʊ/US

Etymology

From Latin status (“state”) (sometimes used in the ablative statū) + quō (“in which”), the ablative of quī (“which”).

  1. borrowed from status

Definitions

  1. The state of things

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

The neighborhood

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