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stand for

verb as in signify, mean

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On Wednesday, Dominique Pelicot was given a chance to address his daughter while taking the stand for the final time in this trial.

From BBC

Sahar said she went home and started googling Java and “became extremely enamored with her beauty and what she stood for.”

"We need to change people's perceptions of what Jaguar stands for," he said.

From BBC

One consequence was that a lot of people remained unsure what she stood for.

From Salon

He also began campaigning for the legalisation of cannabis and stood for election to Parliament in 1997 on a single-issue ticket of reforming drugs laws.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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