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to stand around
[phrase form: stand]
01
to spend time standing in a place without doing anything purposeful or without having a particular reason to be there
Intransitive
Grammatical Information
action verb
regular
inseparable
present tense
stand around
3rd person singular
stands around
past simple
stood around
past participle
stood around
Examples
We had to stand around for an hour waiting for the bus to arrive.
