- done from a position in which you are standing rather than sitting or running
- a standing jump/start
- The speaker got a standing ovation (= people stood up to clap after the speech).
- existing or arranged permanently, not formed or made for a particular situation
- a standing army
- (British English) a standing charge (= an amount of money that you pay regularly in order to use a service, such as gas or water)
- a standing committee
- It’s a standing joke (= something that a group of people regularly laugh at).
- We have a standing invitation to visit them anytime.
see also free-standing
Idioms
See standing in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee standing in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishfrom a standing start
- (used about beginning a project or task) from an initial position in which none of the necessary elements are in place
- The space project went from a standing start to the moon in ten years.
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