stay on
continue in a place, position, or situation (Freq. 5)
- After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser
- Stay with me, please
- despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year
- She continued as deputy mayor for another year
• Syn:
stay, continue, remain
• Derivationally related forms:
continuation (for: continue), stay (for: stay)
• Hypernyms:
be
• Hyponyms:
bide, abide, stay, hold over
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s PP
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