as things stand

As a situation is at this time. As things stand, we'll have 12 people at dinner tonight. Will you please apologize to Dottie? As things stand now, she's really mad at you.

as things stand

as the situation is As things stand now, I can't imagine we'll be ready to leave until Friday at the earliest.

Related vocabulary: as it stands

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Stacia	-	English
Paule	-	French
Jaqueline	JAK-ə-leen (English), JAK-ə-lin (English)	English (Modern), Portuguese (Brazilian)
Pinchas	-	Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew
Aiken	['eikin]
Aragorn	-	Literature