stand by sth
— phrasal verb with stand uk/stænd/us/stænd/verb stood, stood
to continue doing what you said you would when you made a decision, agreement, or promise:
Despite its financial problems, the company is standing by the no-redundancy agreement.
to continue to believe that something you have said before is still true:
I stand by the statement I made earlier - there is no reason for the minister to resign.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Loyal, faithful & dependable
- a man/woman of his/her word idiom
- a safe pair of hands idiom
- allegiance
- be as good as your word idiom
- be there for sb idiom
- faithful
- faithfulness
- fealty
- fidelity
- fiduciary
- hand
- paid-up
- stand
- staunch
- staunchly
- straight
- straight arrow idiom
- the Pledge of Allegiance
- true-blue
- word
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