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TAKE A FIRM STAND
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Dictionary entry overview: What does take a firm stand mean?
• TAKE A FIRM STAND (verb)
The verb TAKE A FIRM STAND has 1 sense:
1. be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge
Familiarity information: TAKE A FIRM STAND used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
insist; take a firm stand
Context example:
I must insist!
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take a firm stand"):
hold firm; stand fast; stand firm; stand pat (refuse to abandon one's opinion or belief)
assert; asseverate; maintain (state categorically)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s on something
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