sit around en · VERB
Meanings
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To spend time sitting idly, not doing anything important.
"When it was all British Rail, if they had some redundant sidings, they would dump all their old trains. There wasn't really a pressure to get rid of them. Now, with private companies owning the sites, you have to pay to store vehicles. Nobody wants old vehicles sat around - they can be graffitied, vandalised - and so the onus really is to move them on.
2025 October 29, James Steward tells Joe Campbell, “Thriving on the stock exchange”, in RAIL, number 1047, page 45:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| sat around | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| sat around | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| sitting around | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| sits around | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
Translations (10)
fi istuksia (sit idly) · mn дэмий суух (sit idly) · de herumsitzen (sit idly) · la desideo (sit idly) · vi ngồi không (sit idly) · fi istuskella (sit idly) · de rumsitzen (sit idly) · mi moteko (sit idly) · ms duduk-duduk (sit idly) · la sedeo (sit idly)