Other forms: standings
Standing is the position somebody holds in others' regard. Damage his standing.
It takes years to build and can go in an afternoon, which is the whole cruelty of it. In law standing is the right to bring a case, which is a different sense of the same word.
1nounstandingThe position somebody holds in others' regard.
“His standing in the profession survived the whole business.”
standing is a position.
Old English standende, from standan, to stand; the sense of position is as old as the literal one.
Proto-Indo-European
*steh₂-
Proto-Germanic
*standandz — standing
Old English
standende
Middle English
standynge
English, today
standing
From Middle English standynge, stondynge, standende, stondinde, standande, stondande, from Old English standende, stondende, from Proto-Germanic standandz (“standing”), present participle of Proto-Germanic standaną (“to stand”), equivalent to stand + ing.
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