standing

Meanings

Verb

• Present participle of stand

Adjective

• Erect, not cut down.
• Performed from an erect position.
• Remaining in force or status.
• Stagnant; not moving or flowing.
• Not transitory; not liable to fade or vanish; lasting.
• Not movable; fixed.

Noun

• Position or reputation in society or a profession.
• Duration.
• The act of a person who stands, or a place where someone stands.
• The position of a team in a league or of a player in a list.
• Room in which to park a vehicle or vehicles
• The right of a party to bring a legal action, based on the relationship between that party and the matter to which the action relates.
• The location on a street where a market trader habitually operates.

Related

Opposite words

• moving, working (committees)

Origin

• From Middle English standynge, stondynge, standende, stondinde, standande, stondande, from Old English standende, stondende, from Proto-Germanic *standandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *standaną, equivalent to stand + -ing.
• From Middle English standyng, stonding, stondung, from Old English *standung, equivalent to stand + -ing.