stay on
— phrasal verb with stay uk/steɪ/us/steɪ/verb
C1 to continue to be in a place, job, or school after the other people who were with you have left:
Gill decided to stay on at university to do further research.
We asked him to stay on as youth leader for another year.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Staying and remaining
- closeted
- halt
- hang
- hold
- hold sb over
- keep to somewhere
- leave
- remaining
- residual
- rest
- sit tight idiom
- sojourn
- stand
- stay
- stop
- tarry
- vestigial
- wait
- wait behind
- wait for sb
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