Definition of "standings" []

• Plural form of standing. (noun)
• A collective list of the standing of each team in a league. (noun)

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• "I have known a faculty of some forty members who were compelled to register the term standings by sitting in a circle and calling off the grades of several hundred students student by student and class by class for each student as it came their turn, while a clerk recorded the grades."
• "With F1 2010 on its mid-season break, a brief look at Schumacher's situation does not make for particularly encouraging reading, as the man who is by some margin the most successful driver in the sport's long history sits a distant ninth in the title standings with just 38 points to his name, 56 fewer than team-mate"
• "McLaren arrived on home turf off the back of one-two finishes in Turkey and Canada and an unexpected two-three in the European Grand Prix in Valencia, riding the crest of a wave of momentum with its two drivers sat atop the title standings, with high expectations of the new"