stay on meaning

Verb: stay on

1. Continue in a place, position, or situation
   "After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser"
   - stay, continue, remain

Derived forms: stays on, stayed on, staying on

Type of: be

[American slang]
to remain at a place longer than had been planned.
  I stayed on in Paris for nearly two years.
  Mary liked it there and decided to stay on.

• stay:    Verb: stay &n ...
• stay at:    Verb: stay atResid ...
• stay in:    stay in to remain ...

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1. our stay on earth is not for long.
2. i am not sure whether to resign or stay on.
3. the raider stays on the air.
4. okey, so we stay on our toes in the tower.
5. my hat wo n't stay on properly.