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
Rosica	-	Bulgarian
Nand	-	Indian, Hindi
Manuel	mah-NWEL (Spanish), man-oo-EL (Portuguese), MAHN-oo-el (German)	Spanish, Portuguese, German, English, Italian, French, Romanian, Late Greek (Latinized)
Topi	TO-pee	Finnish
Sabah	-	Arabic, Turkish
Deb	[deb]