stay back
/steɪˈbæk/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.25 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Many of these students, in fact, do stay back and work in Singapore after their studies are over."
- "When parents are late, childcare workers have to stay back late to take care of the children."
- "Mr Como was quite displeased and he told me to stay back tomorrow and do it."
- "When caught for breaking the language rule, the punishment was to stay back in school and write lines of repentance for his wrongdoing: but in the school fields and canteens, Leow noted that, “students chattered in Mandarin and Hokkien as they wished with nobody to stop them.”"
- "'The monitoring system would require Hock to stay back after school until 5 pm everyday to catch up on his school, have one of the discipline teachers to acknowledge the time he returned home.'"
- "'Of course, if we didn’t finish our work we had to stay back, and there was no such thing as overtime."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /steɪˈbæk/
- British English: /steɪˈbæk/