Definition of "stand for" []

• To mean; to symbolize; to represent (verb)
• To advocate, to support (verb)
• To tolerate (verb)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "At home Mama worked feverishly on my wedding dress, forcing me to stand for the fitting, enlisting my sisters Olive and Carlene to boost my spirits."
• "Scripture is still spoken of as inspired, but its inspiration is only the impassioned expression of human religious experiences; Christ is the Son of God, but His Son-ship is like that of any other good man; the very ideas of God, religion, Church, sacraments, have lost their old values: they stand for nothing real outside the subject in whose religious life they form a kind of fool's paradise."
• "I based the character somewhat on myself, calling him “Jonathan A.,” with the idea that the “A.” could stand for “alcoholic” or “alone” or “Ames.”"