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单词 stand for sth
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stand for sth

phrasal verb with stand uk/stænd/us/stænd/verb stood, stood

(ACCEPT)

If you will not stand for something, you will not accept a situation or a particular type of behaviour:

I wouldn't stand for that sort of behaviour from him, if I were you.

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  • I'm not going to stand for that sort of behaviour in my class.
  • He can't speak to me like that - I'm not going to stand for it!
  • Her behaviour is totally out of order and I'm not going to stand for it.
  • There has to come a point when you say, enough is enough, I'm not going to stand for it.
  • She wouldn't behave like that with him - he wouldn't stand for it.

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Tolerating and enduring

  • bear
  • bear with sb
  • bearable
  • bide
  • come to terms with sth idiom
  • endurance
  • philosophically
  • resign yourself to sth
  • resigned
  • ride
  • ride sth out
  • sit
  • sit sth out
  • stew
  • stew (in your own juice) idiom
  • stick
  • stick it out
  • stick with it idiom
  • stick with sth/sb
  • sweat it out idiom

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(REPRESENT)

B2 to support or represent a particular idea or set of ideas:

This party stands for low taxes and individual freedom.

B2 If one or more letters stand for a word or name, they are the first letter or letters of that word or name and they represent it:

GMT stands for Greenwich Mean Time.

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  • I despise him and everything he stands for.
  • The socialist party have lost sight of what they stand for.
  • So what do they stand for - what's their agenda?
  • The 'E' in her initials stands for 'Emma'.
  • UFO stands for 'unidentified flying object'.

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Backing, supporting & defending

  • -backed
  • argumentation
  • bale
  • bale out
  • bear
  • behind every great/successful man there stands a woman idiom
  • buttress
  • carry
  • countenance
  • defensible
  • endorse
  • espouse
  • fight your corner idiom
  • speak
  • stake
  • stand by sb
  • stand shoulder to shoulder with sb idiom
  • strike
  • sympathize
  • sympathy

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