Synonyms

remain stay continue

Examples

: "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"

Used in print

Rachel stayed_on after the doctor had gone .

When they got home Harold was grateful for the stillness in the apartment , and thought how , under different circumstances , they might have stayed_on here , in these old-fashioned , high-ceilinged rooms that reminded him of the Irelands ' apartment in the East_Eighties .

Related terms

be bide hold_over lengthiness