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stand to

verb

  1. adverb military to assume positions or cause to assume positions to resist a possible attack
  2. stand to reason
    to conform with the dictates of reason

    it stands to reason that pigs can't fly

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Here I met with Will Bowyer, and had a promise from him of a place to stand to-morrow at his house to see the show.

Who were the engineers who constructed artificial rocking stones and skilfully poised them where they stand to-day?

And Florence chose the pillars, which stand to-day beside the eastern gate of the Baptistery in that city.

I stand to-day, as I believe, in the presence of greater events than those which attend the making of a President.

As things stand to-day a council of city men are not likely to advance salaries where their police court is losing money.

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