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fullstanding

fullstanding adjective: completely standing; standing fully upright.

Adjective

fullstanding (comparative more fullstanding, superlative most fullstanding)

  1. Completely standing; standing fully upright.
    • […] could be watched by small groups of people at about eye level through a hole cut in a wall or other fullstanding opaque divider.1995, Film History, volume 7, page 120
    • With the escutcheon is an original Collis family scrapbook containing numerous postwar newspaper clippings about the life of this remarkable citizen and the honors paid to him at his death. Included in the book is a faded, fullstanding carte de viste photograph of Collis as sergeant major of the...2009, Heritage Auctions, “Heritage Civil War Auction #6024 - Page 78”, in Inc.
  2. Complete in standing; standing fully on one's own; whole; sound; complete; entire; absolute.
    • To achieve a fullstanding objective method of historical research is neither possible nor desirable in the view of Robin Collingwood (Clausen 1968, p35).1982, Arild Holt-Jensen, Geography, its history and concepts
    • Participation means that a member state, as such, as a fullstanding state and independently from the size of their territory or their population, is entitled to be involved in decision making at the level of the federation.1999, Arnault Serra-Horguelin, The federal experiment in Ethiopia

Forms of fullstanding

comparativemore fullstanding
superlativemost fullstanding
alternative formfull-standing

Origin of fullstanding

From full + standing. Compare German vollständig (“complete, whole, entire, perfect”), Dutch volstaan (“to suffice”), Swedish fullständig (“full, complete, with everything included”).

Questions about fullstanding

What does fullstanding mean?
Fullstanding means completely standing; standing fully upright.
What part of speech is fullstanding?
Fullstanding is an adjective.

Words near fullstanding in the dictionary

  1. fullsets
  2. fullsib
  3. fullsibs
  4. fullsize
  5. fullsome
  6. fullstanding
  7. fullstop
  8. fullstops
  9. fullsuit
  10. fullsuited
  11. fullsuiter

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