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staying put

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

Meaning of stay put

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.

Questions about staying put

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

Words near staying put in the dictionary

  1. staying on
  2. staying out
  3. staying over
  4. staying power
  5. staying powers
  6. staying put
  7. staying the course
  8. staying the distance
  9. staying the night
  10. staying together
  11. staying tuned

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