Phrase Hound found 63 phrases and 73 compound words that contain stay. The most common are listed below. Open stay in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 63
- stay-at-homeOf a parent: not employed and rather devoting more time to one's children.
- stay upUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stay, up.
- stay-awayOf a person or other object or property, that avoids or stays away.
- stay tunedTo remain as a listener or viewer of the particular radio station or television channel to which one is currently paying attention.
- stay outTo spend time out of one's house.
- stay the nightTo spend a night at someone else's home.
- pay to stayAlternative form of pay-to-stay.
- stay the courseTo persist or continue, especially in the face of difficulties.
- stay behindAlternative form of stay-behind.
- stay up late
- Stay Home
- stay putTo remain in one fixed place
- Extended Stay
- stay togetherTo remain loyal in times of stress or difficulty; to avoid separation despite pressure to do so.
- Stay Alive
- chain stayOne of the two frame tubes that run horizontally from the bottom bracket shell back to the rear dropouts.
- stay backTo remain (at work, school, organisation, country, etc.) after normal hours
- stay overTo stay overnight in a place other than one's home; to sleep over.
- Stay Open
- Stay Awake
- seat stayOne of the two bicycle frame tubes running diagonally downward from the top of the seat tube to the rear dropouts.
- Stay Free
- stay the distanceSynonym of stay the course: To persist or continue, especially in the face of difficulties.
- stay and playThe treating of casualties at the scene of an accident or injury, rather than transporting them to a hospital or other facility.
- stay frostyTo be alert and ready for action, without letting one's fear or other emotions get in the way.
Compound words 73
- mainstayA chief support.
- homestayA system whereby students, visiting a foreign country to study, board with a local family at an affordable price.
- farmstayA working farm that also offers accommodation to paying guests.
- backstayA part of the rigging of a sailing ship extending from the top of the mast (masthead) to the back of the ship; they support the strain on all upper masts and provide additional support to the shrouds when the wind is abaft the beam.
- forestayA stay that extends from the top of the foremast to the bow or bowsprit of a sailing ship
- staysailA fore-and-aft rigged sail whose luff can be affixed to a stay running forward from a mast to the deck, the bowsprit or to another mast.
- staycationA vacation spent at or close to home.
- chainstayAlternative spelling of chain stay: One of the two frame tubes that run horizontally from the bottom bracket shell back to the rear dropouts.
- gainstayTo stand against or in opposition to; resist; oppose.
- staymakerSomeone who makes stays.