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stay put

stay put verb: to remain in one fixed place.

Verb

stay put (third-person singular simple present stays put, present participle staying put, simple past and past participle stayed put)

  1. (idiomatic) To remain in one fixed place
    • I'm not moving there; I'd rather stay put.
    • I keep adjusting the focus, but it won't stay put.

stay put meaning in Bengali

stay put in Bengali

একটি নির্দিষ্ট জায়গায় থাকা

Forms of stay put

third-person singular presentstays put
present participlestaying put
past participlestayed put
paststayed put

Questions about stay put

What does stay put mean?
Stay put means to remain in one fixed place.
What is stay put in Bengali?
Stay put in Bengali is একটি নির্দিষ্ট জায়গায় থাকা. See Stay put meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is stay put?
Stay put is a verb.
What is the past tense of stay put?
The past tense of stay put is stayed put.

Words near stay put in the dictionary

  1. stay in one's lane
  2. stay loose
  3. stay on
  4. stay out
  5. stay over
  6. stay put
  7. stay tackle
  8. stay tackles
  9. stay the course
  10. stay the distance
  11. stay the night

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stay put (page history and authors); stay put (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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