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status quo
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.

status quo (s) (noun), status quos (pl)
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!
An existing condition.
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Word Entries containing the term: “status quo
status quo ante
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.

status quo ante bellum
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.

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