staying

stay·ing
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/ˈsteɪ.ɪŋ/

noun

A stay or visit.

CommonScrabble 11

Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of stay
nounstaying (plural stayings)

plural stayings

  1. A stay or visit.

    The years that follow are chiefly noteworthy for his intercourse with four clever girl cousins called Southall, and sundry stayings at Moseley with a cheery, literary old grandmother[…]

    1907, The National Review, volume 48, page 135
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    But he found it strange to think […] of all these little things that cluster round the comings, and the stayings, and the goings, that he would know nothing of them, nothing of what they had been, as long as he lived, […]

    1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC

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