stand forsomething
phrasal verbwithstandverbuk/stænd/us/stænd/stood|stood
(ACCEPT)
If you will notstandfor something, you will notacceptasituationor aparticulartypeofbehaviour:
I wouldn'tstandfor thatsortofbehaviourfrom him, if I were you.
- I'm not going tostandfor thatsortofbehaviourin myclass.
- He can'tspeakto me like that - I'm not going tostandfor it!
- Herbehaviouristotallyout oforderand I'm not going tostandfor it.
- There has to come apointwhen you say, enough is enough, I'm not going tostandfor it.
- She wouldn'tbehavelike that with him - he wouldn'tstandfor it.
Tolerating and enduring
- bear
- bear withsomeone
- bearable
- bide
- come to terms withsomethingidiom
- endurable
- intolerance
- philosophically
- resignyourselftosomething
- resignedly
- ridesomethingout
- rough
- sit
- sitsomethingout
- stand up tosomeone/something
- stick
- sweat it outidiom
- waitsomethingout
- weather the stormidiom
- withstand
(REPRESENT)
B2
tosupportorrepresentaparticularideaor set ofideas:
Thispartystandsforlowtaxesandindividualfreedom.
B2
If one or morelettersstandfor a word orname, they are the firstletterorlettersof that word ornameand theyrepresentit:
GMTstandsfor Greenwich Mean Time.
to be the abbreviation for something
- be an/the abbreviation forDST is the abbreviation for daylight saving time.
- stand forGPS stands for "Global Positioning System".
- short for somethingJo is short for Josephine.
- be abbreviated toThe word "immunoglobulin" is often abbreviated to "Ig".
- be shortened toThe word "propeller" is often shortened to "prop".
- Idespisehim and everything hestandsfor.
- Thesocialistpartyhavelostsightof what theystandfor.
- So what do theystandfor - what'stheiragenda?
- The 'E' in herinitialsstandsfor 'Emma'.
- UFOstandsfor 'unidentifiedflyingobject'.
Backing, supporting & defending
- adopt
- advocacy
- affirmation
- allyyourselfto/withsomeone
- argumentation
- backbone
- badge
- bailout
- champion
- keep the flag flyingidiom
- recommended
- red carpet
- reinforce
- right behindsomeoneidiom
- roll out the red carpetidiom
- root
- root forsomeone
- stick
- stick together
- sympathetic
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Typifying, illustrating and exemplifying