Meaning of stand with | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To back or side with; to support (in reference to literally standing alongside someone to show one's support).
   idiomatic
2. To argue or dispute with (especially in the context of haggling or bargaining).
   obsolete
3. To exist alongside; to coexist.
   obsolete
4. To be in agreement with.
   obsolete
5. To spend time with.
   obsolete
6. To travel alongside.
   obsolete
7. To align with.
   obsolete
8. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stand, with.

Examples

“We have declared that we stand with the protestors.”

“"I stand with Bernie Sanders today because he stood with me," Jackson said to cheers. "I stand with him because he's never lost his taste for justice for the people. I stand with him because he stands with you."”

“People feel that Ardern "doesn’t preach at them; she's standing with them," Helen Clark, New Zealand's prime minister from 1999 to 2008, told me.”

“"We will continue to provide financial, humanitarian, military, diplomatic and legal support and will stand firmly with Ukraine for as long as it takes," the joint statement said.”

“But still remember, added she, that you must not stand with him about the price: Whatever he shall ask of you, you must not fail to give it.”

“And it is an exhalacion, hot and drye, included in the concauities of the earth, where it seeking a passage out, and not fynding, it is laboured, being so laboured, it is rarified, and beinge rarifyed, is kindled, bycause great rarefaction standeth with great heate.”

“Were it not well, my liege, to send a page to the top of that sand-bank? Or would it stand with your pleasure that I prick forward?”

“A Barber stood with her on Saturday night very late, when he had shau'd all his Customers, and as I thinke, came to trimme her.”

“A number of large fishing-boats were coming in from sea, and standing with us into the roads; and although we were running at the rate of seven knots an hour, they passed us with great rapidity.”

“Another advantage would be found, when a Printing-houſe ſhould happen to be ſold, that the Letter of it would ſtand with another Fount of the ſame Body.”

“She testified that she was standing with another sex worker on a street just south of the Downtown Eastside on a snowy winter day when a blue Chevrolet drove up.”

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