Usually means: Rise to an upright position.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word stand up:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. stand up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. stand-up, stand up: Merriam-Webster
  3. stand-up, stand up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. stand-up, stand-up, stand up: Collins English Dictionary
  5. stand-up, stand up: Vocabulary.com
  6. Stand-Up, Stand-up, stand-up: Wordnik
  7. stand-up, stand up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. stand-up, stand up: Wiktionary
  9. stand-up: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. stand-up: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. stand-up: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  13. stand-up, stand up: Rhymezone
  14. stand up: Phrasal Verb Page
  15. stand-up, stand up: FreeDictionary.org
  16. stand-up, stand up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. stand-up, stand up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. stand-up: Infoplease Dictionary
  19. stand-up, stand up: Dictionary.com
  20. stand up: Online Etymology Dictionary

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Stand-up (news), stand up: Legal dictionary
  2. Stand-up (news): Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Stand-up (news), stand-up, stand up: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stand up: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. stand up: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. stand up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Stand up: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stand-up: Television: Critical Methods and Applications

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Definitions from Wiktionary (stand up)

verb:  (intransitive) To rise from a lying or sitting position.
verb:  (transitive) To bring something up and set it into a standing position; to set something up.
verb:  (transitive, idiomatic) (stand someone up) To avoid a prearranged meeting, especially a date, with (a person) without prior notification; to jilt or shirk.
verb:  (intransitive, of a thing) To last or endure over a period of time.
verb:  (intransitive, of a person or narrative) To continue to be believable, consistent, or plausible.
verb:  (intransitive, cricket, of a wicket-keeper) To stand immediately behind the wicket so as to catch balls from a slow or spin bowler, and to attempt to stump the batsman.
verb:  (transitive) To launch, propel upwards
verb:  (US, military, transitive) To formally activate and commission (a unit, formation, etc.).
verb:  To make one's voice heard, to speak up.
verb:  (intransitive, formal) To serve in a role during a wedding ceremony.

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