quo
UK/kwəʊ//kwoʊ/
quo verb: quoth.
Verb
quo
Noun
quo (plural quos)
- Paired with quid, in reference to the phrase quid pro quo (“this for that”): something given in exchange for something else.
- […]; but what is the quo for which they ought to give the quid? you say they ought to give a quid pro quo; what is the quo? […]; the quo there was the taking up of the streets? […]; did not they give you a pretty handsome quid for the quo there?1886 May 19, Report from the Select Committee of the House of Lords on the Electric Lighting Act (1882) Amendment (No. 1) Bill [H.L.]; the Electric Lighting Act (1882) Amendment (No. 2) Bill [H.L.]...
- Quid pro quo benefits are by nature differentially available to individuals, depending upon the quo—upon what promise has been made or performance provided.1993, Richard Edwards, Rights at Work: Employment Relations in the Post-Union Era, Brookings Institution, →ISBN, page 29
quo meaning in Odia and Nepali
quo in Odia
- କ୍ୱୋ
quo in Nepali
- टु क्वो
Examples of quo in a sentence
- Indeed, asymmetry precludes the possibility of pointing to any particular quo that is meant to recompense the quid.2000, Andrew Stark, Conflict of Interest in American Public Life, →ISBN, pages 163–164:
- Valeo, involves a quid pro quo: an officeholder doing something in office in return for money or some other favor provided by another individual or entity (for our purposes, a corporation).2009, George G. Brenkert, Tom L. Beaucham, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Business Ethics, Oxford University Press, page 504:
- It is hard to pull off a quid pro quo if the holder of the quo doesn’t know about the quid.2020, John Yoo, Defender in Chief: Donald Trump’s Fight for Presidential Power, New York, N.Y.: All Points Books, St. Martin’s Publishing...
Forms of quo
| plural | quos |
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Origin of quo
See quoth.
Phrases with quo
Words that rhyme with quo
Questions about quo
- What does quo mean?
- Quo means quoth.
- What is quo in Odia?
- Quo in Odia is କ୍ୱୋ. See Quo meaning in Odia.
- How do you use quo in a sentence?
- Indeed, asymmetry precludes the possibility of pointing to any particular quo that is meant to recompense the quid.
- What part of speech is quo?
- Quo can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce quo?
- Quo is pronounced /kwəʊ/ (UK).
Words near quo in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: quo (page history and authors); quo (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); quo (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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