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Stay on   /steɪ ɑn/   Listen
Stay on

verb
1.
Continue in a place, position, or situation.  Synonyms: continue, remain, stay.  "Stay with me, please" , "Despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year" , "She continued as deputy mayor for another year"






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"Stay on" Quotes from Famous Books



... events, plans for the present were changed. Instead of a day or two in Cairo they were to stay on indefinitely. George, as well as Roger, was taken into the secret, but Lady Gardiner was told only the fact. She was pleased at first, for she was fond of Cairo, and had never had a chance to stop there in luxury ...
— The Castle Of The Shadows • Alice Muriel Williamson

... the brook and see how near the water came to the top of his rubber boots. But he didn't want to be knocked down and perhaps hit with a piece of the ice, so he wisely decided to follow Bob's advice and stay on shore. ...
— Sunny Boy and His Playmates • Ramy Allison White

... weakness, and one which had delayed his promotion, Larkyns hopped down the after-hatchway on his way to the gunroom, I following after him, nothing loth to have some little refreshment after my long stay on deck, this having made ...
— Crown and Anchor - Under the Pen'ant • John Conroy Hutcheson

... we shall want any detectives here, gentlemen," said the constable; "I shall stay on the premises, but perhaps you will let the butler—no, I think one of you, perhaps—will be good enough to send in the first ...
— The Dark House - A Knot Unravelled • George Manville Fenn

... gittin' a chance fer ter tell her good-by; en now I got ter go off en leab you, Tenie, en I dunno whe'r I'm eber gwine ter see yer ag'in er no. I wisht I wuz a tree, er a stump, er a rock, er sump'n w'at could stay on de ...
— The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue • Various


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