if a letter, an abbreviation, or a symbol stands for something, that is what it means or represents
if someone stands for a particular principle, they believe that principle is important
to be willing to accept something that someone does
to try to get chosen in an election for a particular position or as a member of a particular institution. In American English, you say that someone runs for office
He could stand for Prime Minister and be voted in.
I hate them and everything they stand for.
I'm going to talk about what I stand for.
It may not be doing much to lower teenage pregnancy rates or raise our moral standards but it stands for decency and moderation.
Malcolm McLaren stood for Mayor of London in 2000.
No one makes a fool of me. I won’t stand for it!
Saying any such thing would contradict everything he stood for.
She is intending to stand for parliament.
The letters ERM stand for Exchange-Rate Mechanism.
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There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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