status quo
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Definition of status quo
: the existing state of affairs
seeks to preserve the status quo
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Examples of status quo in a Sentence
He is content with the status quo and does not like change.
civic leaders who are afraid to do anything that might change the town's status quo
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Though two-deep depth charts are the status quo in major college football, there is no requirement that teams release them. — Alex Putterman, courant.com, "Randy Edsall explains quarterback decision, introduces ‘participation squad’ and ‘developmental squad'," 25 Aug. 2019 And that is a significant erosion of the traditional understandings of the status quo. — Washington Post, "Clashes undermine fragile truce over Jerusalem holy site," 12 Aug. 2019 This whole saga dates back to her 2010 disruption of the status quo. — Mark Curnutte, Cincinnati.com, "Will economic boycott follow judge's decision to send former judge Hunter to jail?," 22 July 2019 That’s been the status quo for two decades, but the tariff situation is quickly showing how tenuous the situation is, with the ongoing trade dispute potentially driving up costs across the industry and companies having no easy way out. — Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge, "HP, Dell, Microsoft, and Amazon look to move some hardware production out of China," 3 July 2019 But critics of the status quo argue that the basic architecture of the classical genre — with nonperforming composers and works made up of multiple movements — is not suited to a system built for pop. — Ben Sisario, New York Times, "In Streaming Age, Classical Music Gets Lost in the Metadata," 23 June 2019 The most likely scenario is a status quo NAFTA with the president campaigning that he ‘got a great deal,' but Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats won’t pass it. — Olivera Perkins, cleveland.com, "AFL-CIO president’s town-hall trade tour to stop in Cleveland on Tuesday," 14 June 2019 The fringe parties will gain as long as the mainstream parties fail to recognize that the voters want more than a coalition of the status quo. — The Editorial Board, WSJ, "Berlin’s Hotel Merkel," 29 Oct. 2018 If the Giants are determined to play meaningful baseball into late September, shaking up the status quo may give them the best chance to do so. — Kerry Crowley, The Mercury News, "Giants abandoned the ‘opener’ strategy, but it’s time for the team to reconsider," 15 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'status quo.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for status quo
status quo
noun
English Language Learners Definition of status quo
: the current situation : the way things are now
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status quo
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Legal Definition of status quo
: the existing state of affairs
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: the last actual and uncontested state of affairs that preceded a controversy and that is to be preserved by preliminary injunction — compare status quo ante
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