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Definition of stand for phrasal verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

stand for

phrasal verb
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stand for something [no passive]
  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?’
  2. to support or represent 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.
See stand for in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

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