STAY ON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stay on mean? 

• STAY ON (verb)
  The verb STAY ON has 1 sense:

1. continue in a place, position, or situation

  Familiarity information: STAY ON used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STAY ON (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Continue in a place, position, or situation

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

continue; remain; stay; stay on

Context example:

She continued as deputy mayor for another year

Hypernyms (to "stay on" is one way to...):

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "stay on"):

abide; bide; stay (dwell)

hold over (continue a term of office past the normal period of time)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

But it's hard for patients to stay on treatment for so long.

(Vitamin C Might Shorten Tuberculosis Treatment Time, Study Indicates, VOA/Steve Baragona)

It uses sensors to stay on the white line.

(Driverless Bus-train Hybrid Runs on Virtual Painted Tracks, VOA)

It is important that they stay on the diet for the rest of their lives.

(Phenylketonuria, NIH: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)

He became cat-like in his ability to stay on his feet.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

OH, also called hydroxyl, doesn’t stay on its own for long, preferring to attack molecules or attach itself chemically to them.

(On Second Thought, the Moon's Water May Be Widespread and Immobile, NASA)

“You will please stay on deck, Miss Brewster,” Wolf Larsen said, as he started forward to meet his guest.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Not alone had those eight months earned him enough money to stay on land for many weeks, but they had enabled him to do a great deal of studying and reading.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Do you stay on guard, my good Watson, and receive any fresh visitors.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Six fellows were to stay on board, and the remaining thirteen, including Silver, began to embark.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

But my feet would not touch the ground, and I was forced to stay on that pole.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)