Condition or state.

This English derived word that comes directly from Latin is status and it is used in a variety of Latin expressions: statu quo, "as things were before"; status quo, "the state in which anything is (or was)"; status quo ante bellum, "the condition (or military boundaries) that existed before the war"; and status quo ante (a shortened version of the previous phrase, with the same meaning.

1. A rank or a position of someone or something when it is compared to others in a society, organization, group, financial position, etc.: Shirley likes her job with the company and the financial status that is associated with it.
2. The current situation of someone or something: Mary's boss asked for a report about the status of the progress of the project that is being done. © ALL rights are reserved.
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The present position.

"The existing state of affairs as it has been and is" which indicates the idea of preserving something without change, just the way it is now; leave things the way they are.

The way things are, as opposed to the way they could be; the existing condition of something: James was a rich man and didn't want his status quo, or his present situation, to change at all! © ALL rights are reserved.

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The previous position.

Commonly used in international dealings to indicate that nothing is to be changed, or that there is to be a return to an earlier state of affairs.

The previous position before the war.

Commonly used in international dealings to indicate that there is to be a return to an earlier state of affairs that existed before a war.