stayer
Britishnoun
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a person or thing that stays
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informal
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a persistent or tenacious person
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horse racing a persistent horse
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Example Sentences
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Favorite and English stayer Deauville Legend was fourth, and Realm of Flowers finished fifth.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 31, 2022
“I’m a longtime Trump hotel stayer, way before this transaction.”
From The Verge ● Mar. 12, 2019
Flamboyant Italian jockey Frankie Dettori, runner-up behind Prince of Penzance on Max Dynamite last year, returns on another Irish stayer, the William Mullins-trained Wicklow Brave, one of 10 'raiders' in the field.
From Reuters ● Oct. 30, 2016
Nobody seems to be a stayer; companionship and romance are things to be tried, found wanting, and tugged apart.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 24, 2015
It's a stayer, that's what it is, and it keeps right on attending strictly to business.
From Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color by Matthews, Brander
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