Usually means: Represent or advocate a principle.
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  1. stand for: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. stand for: Merriam-Webster
  3. stand for: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. stand for: Collins English Dictionary
  5. stand for: Vocabulary.com
  6. stand for: Wiktionary
  7. stand for: Dictionary.com
  8. stand for: Online Etymology Dictionary
  9. Stand For: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. stand for: Rhymezone
  11. stand for: Phrasal Verb Page
  12. stand for: FreeDictionary.org
  13. stand for: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. stand for: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. stand for: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. stand for: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stand for: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stand for: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (stand for)

▸ verb:  (idiomatic) To mean; to symbolize; to represent
▸ verb:  To advocate, to support
▸ verb:  To tolerate

Similar:
intend, mean, represent, signify, correspond, symbolize, hold still for, symbolify, symbolise, emblematize, more...

Opposite:
oppose, disapprove, protest, object, condemn

Phrases:
stand up for, to stand for, to stand up for, stand in for, Stand for Myself, more...

Adjectives:
standing, onward, stay, stable, last, tarry, stout, cont, hold, even, stay at home
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Similar:
intend, mean, represent, signify, correspond, symbolize, hold still for, symbolify, symbolise, emblematize, more...

Opposite:
oppose, disapprove, protest, object, condemn

Phrases:
stand up for, to stand for, to stand up for, stand in for, Stand for Myself, I Ain't Gonna Stand for It, Stand for Children, stand for something, stand up for yourself, stand by for, stand up for someone, more...

Adjectives:
standing, onward, stay, stable, last, tarry, stout, cont, hold, even, stay at home



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