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staying on

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

Meaning of stay on

Verb

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

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stay, on.
    • How does your hat manage to stay on in such strong wind?
  2. (idiomatic) to continue in a place or situation, while others leave.
    • Some of her friends decided it was time to go home, but she wanted to stay on in there until sunrise.

Questions about staying on

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

Words near staying on in the dictionary

  1. staying behind
  2. staying frosty
  3. staying in
  4. staying in one's lane
  5. staying loose
  6. staying on
  7. staying out
  8. staying over
  9. staying power
  10. staying powers
  11. staying put

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