stand for
phrasal verbstand for something [no passive]
- (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?’
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- to support or represent something
- I hated the organization and all it stood for (= the ideas that it supported).
- not stand for something to not let somebody do something or something happen
- I'm not standing for it any longer.