Usually means: Existing state of affairs maintained.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. status quo: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. status quo, the status quo: Merriam-Webster
  3. status quo: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. status quo: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. status quo, the status quo: Collins English Dictionary
  6. status quo: Vocabulary.com
  7. status-quo: Wordnik
  8. the status quo: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. status quo: Wiktionary
  10. status quo: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. status quo: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. status quo: Dictionary.com
  13. 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
  14. Status quo: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. status quo: Rhymezone
  16. Status quo: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. status quo: FreeDictionary.org
  18. status quo: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. status quo: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. status quo: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Status quo: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  6. Status Quo: INSOLVENCY
  7. Status Quo (band), status quo: Legal dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. the status quo: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  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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