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noun
A situation as it existed prior to the war (often implying the withdrawal of enemy troops and the restoration of pre-war leadership, so that no side gains or loses any rights or territory as a result of the war).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: uti possidetis
History
Learned borrowing from Latin status quō ante bellum (literally “situation as it existed before the war”).
