standing room

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noun

space in which to stand, as in a theater, stadium, or the like.

accommodation for standing.

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Origin of standing room

First recorded in 1595–1605

The order followed weeks of ever-changing regulations, requiring limits to total capacity, an end to bar seating, and a halt to standing room at drinking-only spots.
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Toomey glides around the room like a Brazilian capoeira dancer.
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Hmm, who are these people standing in front of the machines at the gym, neither occupying them nor not occupying them?
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However, legal issues are only one of the things standing between an ex-prisoner and a job.
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One day he and some of his roommates were cleaning their room and one of the guys threw the dustpan out into the hall.
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Marvin and I leave the poolside and go into his dining room.
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It is thinner than that of chronic bronchitis, and upon standing separates into three layers of pus, mucus, and frothy serum.
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She looked so sweet when she said it, standing and smiling there in the middle of the floor, the door-way making a frame for her.
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The big room at King's Warren Parsonage was already fairly well filled.
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In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.
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Kind of a reception-room in there—guess I know a reception-room from a hole in the wall.
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