stand for
verb(intr, preposition)
to represent or mean
mainly British to be or become a candidate for
to support or recommend
informal to tolerate or bear: he won't stand for any disobedience
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How to use stand for in a sentence
How, but as a man of principle, shall he stand for-ever in our memory and in the human mind?
Senatorial Character | C. A. Bartol
Other Idioms and Phrases with stand for
stand for
Represent, symbolize, as in The stars and stripes stands for our country. [Early 1600s]
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