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staying in

staying in is the present participle and gerund of stay in.

Meaning of stay in

Verb

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

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stay, in.
    • I don't like to stay in motels.
  2. (intransitive) To remain at home.
    • My friends invited me out on Saturday, but instead I stayed in and watched television.
    Antonyms:
    go out

Questions about staying in

What is staying in the present participle and gerund of?
Staying in is the present participle and gerund of stay in.

Words near staying in in the dictionary

  1. staying at home
  2. staying away
  3. staying back
  4. staying behind
  5. staying frosty
  6. staying in
  7. staying in one's lane
  8. staying loose
  9. staying on
  10. staying out
  11. staying over

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Adapted from Wiktionary: staying in (page history and authors); stay in (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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