stationary

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Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

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From Latin stationarius, from statio, ultimately from stō (“to stand”). Doublet of stationer.

I like to be stationary. — Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street, Herman Melville
For a minute the lights are stationary. — Fifty-Two Stories For Girls, Unknown
It seems, however, to have been long stationary. — An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith

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