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Standby   /stˈændbˈaɪ/   Listen
Standby

adjective
1.
Ready for emergency use.  "A standby crew"
noun
1.
Something that can be relied on when needed.
2.
An actor able to replace a regular performer when required.  Synonym: understudy.





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"Standby" Quotes from Famous Books



... keeps them in good order, and stimulates the salivary glands. Further, Power is a Natural Corrective of inestimable worth. It may form the correct diet for young children and the aged. It is perfectly digestible and will prove a tower of strength and a standby under all conditions of life ...
— The Allinson Vegetarian Cookery Book • Thomas R. Allinson
... was no light thing for a boy of his years, ignorant of life and the world, to cut himself adrift from old ties and voyage into the unknown. Had he been wise? He had no trade as a standby; his whole endowment was his youth and his wits. Would they suffice? Diggle's talk had opened up an immense prospect, full of color and mystery and romance, chiming well with his daydreams. Was it possible that, sailing to India, he might find some ...
— In Clive's Command - A Story of the Fight for India • Herbert Strang
... Captain observed, as a general opening of the conversation that could not fail to propitiate all parties, 'Wal'r, standby!' ...
— Dombey and Son • Charles Dickens


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