# stand with
## English
### Verb

stand with (third-person singular simple present stands with, present participle standing with, simple past and past participle stood with)
* (idiomatic) To back or side with; to support (in reference to literally standing alongside someone to show one's support).
    We have declared that we stand with the protestors.
** 2020 March 9, Giovanni Russonello, The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 2020-03-10:"I stand with Bernie Sanders today because he stood with me," Jackson said to cheers. "I stand with him because he's never lost his taste for justice for the people. I stand with him because he stands with you."
** 2020 April 19, Uri Friedman, “New Zealand's Prime Minister May Be the Most Effective Leader on the Planet”, in The Atlantic‎, archived from the original on 2020-06-03:People feel that Ardern "doesn’t preach at them; she's standing with them," Helen Clark, New Zealand's prime minister from 1999 to 2008, told me.
** 2022 October 11, “G7 vows to support Ukraine for as long as it takes”, in Reuters‎, archived from the original on 2022-11-04:"We will continue to provide financial, humanitarian, military, diplomatic and legal support and will stand firmly with Ukraine for as long as it takes," the joint statement said.
* (obsolete)
** To argue or dispute with (especially in the context of haggling or bargaining).
*** 1714, François Pétis de la Croix (tr. Ambrose Philips), The Thousand and One Days:But still remember, added she, that you must not stand with him about the price: Whatever he shall ask of you, you must not fail to give it.
** To exist alongside; to coexist.
*** 1572, John Jones, The bathes of Bathes ayde, page 11:And it is an exhalacion, hot and drye, included in the concauities of the earth, where it seeking a passage out, and not fynding, it is laboured, being so laboured, it is rarified, and beinge rarifyed, is kindled, bycause great rarefaction standeth with great heate.
** To be in agreement with.
*** 1825, Walter Scott, chapter XXVII, in The Talisman:Were it not well, my liege, to send a page to the top of that sand-bank? Or would it stand with your pleasure that I prick forward?
** To spend time with.
*** 1631, Thomas Dekker, Match Me in London:A Barber stood with her on Saturday night very late, when he had shau'd all his Customers, and as I thinke, came to trimme her.
** (nautical) To travel alongside.
*** 1837, George Windsor Earl, The Eastern Seas, page 12:A number of large fishing-boats were coming in from sea, and standing with us into the roads; and although we were running at the rate of seven knots an hour, they passed us with great rapidity.
** (typography, of a character) To align with.
*** 1755, John Smith, The Printer's Grammar, page 35:Another advantage would be found, when a Printing-houſe ſhould happen to be ſold, that the Letter of it would ſtand with another Fount of the ſame Body.
* Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stand,‎ with.
** 2011 October 31, “Sex worker tells inquiry Pickton raped her”, in CBC News‎, archived from the original on 2022-10-03:She testified that she was standing with another sex worker on a street just south of the Downtown Eastside on a snowy winter day when a blue Chevrolet drove up.

### References

* “stand with”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.