stay on
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| Verb | 1. | stay on - continue in a place, position, or situation; "After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser"; "Stay with me, please"; "despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year"; "She continued as deputy mayor for another year" be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" abide, bide, stay - dwell; "You can stay with me while you are in town"; "stay a bit longer--the day is still young" hold over - continue a term of office past the normal period of time |
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vi (lid etc) → draufbleiben; (light) → anbleiben; (people) → (noch) bleiben; he stayed on for another year → er blieb noch ein Jahr; to stay on at school → (in der Schule) weitermachen; to stay on as manager → (weiterhin) Geschäftsführer bleiben
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