standing with

Verb

stand with (third-person singular simple present stands with, present participle standing with, simple past and past participle stood with)

1. (idiomatic) To back or side with; to support (in reference to literally standing alongside someone to show one's support).
   • We have declared that we stand with the protestors.
2. (obsolete) To argue or dispute with (especially in the context of haggling or bargaining).
   • But still remember, added she, that you must not stand with him about the price: Whatever he shall ask of you, you must not fail to give it.1714, François Pétis de la Croix (tr. Ambrose Philips), The Thousand and One Days
3. (obsolete) To exist alongside; to coexist.
   • And it is an exhalacion, hot and drye, included in the concauities of the earth, where it seeking a passage out, and not fynding, it is laboured, being so laboured, it is rarified, and beinge rarifyed, is kindled, bycause great rarefaction standeth with great heate.1572, John Jones, The bathes of Bathes ayde, page 11
4. (obsolete) To be in agreement with.
   • Were it not well, my liege, to send a page to the top of that sand-bank? Or would it stand with your pleasure that I prick forward?1825, Walter Scott, chapter XXVII, in The Talisman
5. (obsolete) To spend time with.
   • A Barber stood with her on Saturday night very late, when he had shau'd all his Customers, and as I thinke, came to trimme her.1631, Thomas Dekker, Match Me in London
6. (obsolete) To travel alongside.
   • A number of large fishing-boats were coming in from sea, and standing with us into the roads; and although we were running at the rate of seven knots an hour, they passed us with great rapidity.1837, George Windsor Earl, The Eastern Seas, page 12

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