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Definition

standing /'stændÇŋ / n [U] ၁။ အဆင့္အတန္း။ အဆင့္။ နာမည္။ a woman of some standing in the community ❍ a scientist of good/high standing (ie a respected one). ၂။ သက္တမ္း။ a debt/dispute/friendship of long standing. See also LONG-STANDING adj ၁။ (က) တည္ဆဲ။ အၿမဲတမ္း။ a standing army ❍ a standing committee (ie a permanent one that meets regularly). (ခ) အခ်ိန္မေရြး (ကမ္းလင့္ ထား)ေသာ။ မလြဲတမ္း (ပြဲက်ရ)ေသာ။ We have a standing invitation to visit them when we're in the area. ❍ a standing joke (ie sth that regularly causes amusement). ၂။ ( esp sport ) ရပ္ လ်က္အေနအထားမွ (ေျပး၊ ခုန္၊ ပစ္ျခင္း)။ a standing start/jump. ❏ standing order n (က) (also banker's order ) (အခ်ိန္မွန္ေငြလႊဲေပးရန္ ဘဏ္သို႔) ပံုေသၫႊန္ၾကားခ်က္။ Compare DIRECT DEBIT (ခ) တည္ၿမဲအမိန္႔။ the standing orders of the House of Commons. ❏ standing ovation n (usu sing ) ရပ္လ်က္ အားပါးတရ လက္ခုပ္ဩဘာေပးျခင္း။ The soloist got a ten-minute standing ovation after her performance. ❏ standing-room n [U] (ဇာတ္ပြဲ၊ အားကစားပြဲ ပရိသတ္) ရပ္ၾကည့္ရန္ေနရာ။ There was standing-room only left in the concert hall.

Examples

1. This latest scandal will undoubtedly have affected his standing with his colleagues.
2. [of high/great/considerable etc standing] : We are delighted to be working with a company of such high standing.
3. A research centre of international standing
4. People’s jobs are an important measure of social standing.
5. The owner of this house would have been a man of standing in Roman society.
6. The president’s current high standing is not likely to last.