stand-to

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Etymology

Shortened form of "stand-to-arms"

Noun

stand-to (plural stands-to or stand-tos)

  1. (military) A state of readiness assumed by ground troops at dawn and dusk in wartime.
    • 1915, Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That, (1929), Penguin Modern Classics 1960, p. 86:
      "Stand-to" at dusk for about an hour, work all night, "stand-to" for an hour before dawn. That's the general programme.

Verb

stand-to (third-person singular simple present stands-to, present participle standing-to, simple past and past participle stood-to)

  1. (military) To assume such a state of readiness.

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