Definition of standee
: a standing person : one who occupies standing room
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Examples of standee in a Sentence
The audience of 3,000 included several hundred standees.
Recent Examples of standee from the Web
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The Congress is undergoing a $69 million redevelopment that will transform it into a live music venue with a capacity of 4,000 standees.
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Along the sides, every chair is full, and there’s a line of standees leaning against the walls.
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But then there are streets, and streets serve not just drivers but also bicyclists on bikes, pedestrians on foot, café-sitters and jewelry-vendors and food-cart standees.
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The plan also calls for removing seats from trains on the L line and the Times Square shuttle, again to make room for more standees, and for adding cars on lines like the C, which use platforms that can accommodate longer trains.
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Maria Jimenez, who works at a day-care center in Manhattan, was troubled by the idea of fewer seats and more standees.
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Lucasfilm's official Star Wars app will be updated with a new Find the Force button, and at 20,000 retailers worldwide Sept. 1 to 3, there will be standees and graphics with the logo featuring a silhouette of Daisy Ridley’s lightsaber-wielding Rey.
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Each monster has its own colorful cardboard standee.
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First Known Use of standee
1856
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Definition of standee for English Language Learners
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: a person who is standing when other people are sitting
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