"stay back" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "Phrasal verb formed with English elements, stay (verb) and back (preposition).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stays back",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "staying back",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stayed back",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stayed back",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "stay back (third-person singular simple present stays back, present participle staying back, simple past and past participle stayed back)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, India Fever: The New Indian Professional in Singapore, page 106",
          "text": "Many of these students, in fact, do stay back and work in Singapore after their studies are over.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Crisis Management and Public Policy: Singapore's Approach to Economic Resilience",
          "text": "When parents are late, childcare workers have to stay back late to take care of the children.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, My Kiasu Teenage Life in Singapore",
          "text": "Mr Como was quite displeased and he told me to stay back tomorrow and do it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, A Sociolinguistic History of Early Identities in Singapore: From Colonialism to Nationalism, page 155",
          "text": "When caught for breaking the language rule, the punishment was to stay back in school and write lines of repentance for his wrongdoing: but in the school fields and canteens, Leow noted that, “students chattered in Mandarin and Hokkien as they wished with nobody to stop them.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Singapore Teachers: Narratives of Care, Hope and Commitment, page 66",
          "text": "'The monitoring system would require Hock to stay back after school until 5 pm everyday to catch up on his school, have one of the discipline teachers to acknowledge the time he returned home.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Singapore Eurasians: Memories, Hopes and Dreams, page 108",
          "text": "'Of course, if we didn’t finish our work we had to stay back, and there was no such thing as overtime.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Angelia Poon, Angus Whitehead, editors, Singapore Literature and Culture: Current Directions in Local and Global Contexts, page 259",
          "text": "'Because my stupid father thought it would be good for me to stay back and serve NS. he actually insisted that I do it.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To remain (at work, school, organisation, country, etc.) after normal hours"
      ],
      "id": "en-stay_back-en-verb-X7hl1GEK",
      "links": [
        [
          "remain",
          "remain"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "92 8",
          "sense": "to remain",
          "word": "stay behind"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "word": "tarry"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "word": "stay behind"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "ostavatʹsja podolʹše",
          "sense": "to remain (at work, school, organisation, country, etc.) after normal hours",
          "word": "оставаться подольше"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "32 68",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "35 65",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (back)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, Her Singapore Fling, page 166",
          "text": "'Sir, you have to get back,' said a uniformed voice, an ambulance officer this time. 'We're asking everybody to stay back.' 'I live here,' he said. 'With my wife and my boy. Have you seen them?'",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Beneath the Lion City: Irreal Stories of Singapore, page 68",
          "text": "‘No, no, no. You stay back there. I don’t want you anywhere near me.’",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Singapore Red",
          "text": "Other bystanders had noticed him and like Rizby, had kept their distance, but now they began to creep forward to peer at the body. ‘Stay back!’ Rizby yelled. ‘Back! All of you!’",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To keep one's distance from a place, often because of some danger."
      ],
      "id": "en-stay_back-en-verb-ZCu2KEFk",
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "3 97",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "to keep one's distance from a place, often because of some danger",
          "word": "abhibeo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 97",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "deržatʹsja podalʹše",
          "sense": "to keep one's distance from a place, often because of some danger",
          "word": "держаться подальше"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/steɪˈbæk/",
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsteɪˈbek̚/",
      "tags": [
        "Singapore"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "stay back"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English intransitive verbs",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (back)",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Phrasal verb formed with English elements, stay (verb) and back (preposition).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stays back",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "staying back",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stayed back",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stayed back",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "stay back (third-person singular simple present stays back, present participle staying back, simple past and past participle stayed back)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, India Fever: The New Indian Professional in Singapore, page 106",
          "text": "Many of these students, in fact, do stay back and work in Singapore after their studies are over.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Crisis Management and Public Policy: Singapore's Approach to Economic Resilience",
          "text": "When parents are late, childcare workers have to stay back late to take care of the children.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, My Kiasu Teenage Life in Singapore",
          "text": "Mr Como was quite displeased and he told me to stay back tomorrow and do it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, A Sociolinguistic History of Early Identities in Singapore: From Colonialism to Nationalism, page 155",
          "text": "When caught for breaking the language rule, the punishment was to stay back in school and write lines of repentance for his wrongdoing: but in the school fields and canteens, Leow noted that, “students chattered in Mandarin and Hokkien as they wished with nobody to stop them.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Singapore Teachers: Narratives of Care, Hope and Commitment, page 66",
          "text": "'The monitoring system would require Hock to stay back after school until 5 pm everyday to catch up on his school, have one of the discipline teachers to acknowledge the time he returned home.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Singapore Eurasians: Memories, Hopes and Dreams, page 108",
          "text": "'Of course, if we didn’t finish our work we had to stay back, and there was no such thing as overtime.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Angelia Poon, Angus Whitehead, editors, Singapore Literature and Culture: Current Directions in Local and Global Contexts, page 259",
          "text": "'Because my stupid father thought it would be good for me to stay back and serve NS. he actually insisted that I do it.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To remain (at work, school, organisation, country, etc.) after normal hours"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "remain",
          "remain"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, Her Singapore Fling, page 166",
          "text": "'Sir, you have to get back,' said a uniformed voice, an ambulance officer this time. 'We're asking everybody to stay back.' 'I live here,' he said. 'With my wife and my boy. Have you seen them?'",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Beneath the Lion City: Irreal Stories of Singapore, page 68",
          "text": "‘No, no, no. You stay back there. I don’t want you anywhere near me.’",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Singapore Red",
          "text": "Other bystanders had noticed him and like Rizby, had kept their distance, but now they began to creep forward to peer at the body. ‘Stay back!’ Rizby yelled. ‘Back! All of you!’",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To keep one's distance from a place, often because of some danger."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/steɪˈbæk/",
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsteɪˈbek̚/",
      "tags": [
        "Singapore"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "to remain",
      "word": "stay behind"
    },
    {
      "word": "tarry"
    },
    {
      "word": "stay behind"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ostavatʹsja podolʹše",
      "sense": "to remain (at work, school, organisation, country, etc.) after normal hours",
      "word": "оставаться подольше"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to keep one's distance from a place, often because of some danger",
      "word": "abhibeo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "deržatʹsja podalʹše",
      "sense": "to keep one's distance from a place, often because of some danger",
      "word": "держаться подальше"
    }
  ],
  "word": "stay back"
}