- behaving in a moral and honest way synonym upright
- an upstanding member of the community
Oxford Collocations DictionaryUpstanding is used with these nouns:- citizen
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See upstanding in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarybe upstanding
- (British English, formal) used in a formal situation to tell people to stand up
- Ladies and gentlemen, please be upstanding for the bride and groom.
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