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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Typifying, illustrating and exemplifying