Phrasal Verbs
- 1 (not used in the progressive tenses) to be an abbreviation or symbol of something ‘The book's by T.C. Smith.’ ‘What does the ‘T.C.’ stand for?’
- 2to support something I hated the organization and all it stood for (= the ideas that it supported).
- 3 not stand for something to not let somebody do something or something happen I'm not standing for it any longer.
