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- noun Plural form of
stayer .
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Examples
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A state-sponsored land grab of expatriates 'properties, the influx of Russian and Indian property developers, and even a threat to ban the wearing of bikinis has convinced many long-term stayers that the time to leave has come.
Latest news from the public and voluntary sectors, including health, children, local government and social care, plus SocietyGuardian jobs | guardian.co.uk Gethin Chamberlain 2010
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A state-sponsored land grab of expatriates 'properties, the influx of Russian and Indian property developers, and even a threat to ban the wearing of bikinis has convinced many long-term stayers that the time to leave has come.
The Guardian World News Gethin Chamberlain 2010
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Most of the long-term stayers in the Territory, of course, are Aborigines.
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Who in their right minds would lock the only toilet block on the site, and only let the long-term stayers have a key?
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If the departed execs are even 5\% better than the "stayers" -- then Joe Taxpayer loses
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Going the other way, races longer than 2,400 meters are for horses known as stayers, because they can stay the distance.
NYT > Home Page By GINA RARICK 2011
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Such men, as every woman learns in time, are not good "stayers," but they make the time go by very quickly -- sometimes.
Studies in love and in terror Marie Belloc Lowndes 1907
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The settlers, who located their farms near the trading post about which the Indians still collected, were called the "go-ers," while the "stayers" were those who remained in Roxbury, and retained half of the new grant; but it should be added that they paid the go-ers a sum of money to facilitate the settlement.
The Frontier in American History Frederick Jackson Turner 1896
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Unless the "stayers" are willing to treat TEO as a true mission field and comport themselves as if they are evangelizing the lost, they will get nowhere.
Stand Firm 2009
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She is right on the mark that the "stayers" have been left behind without an organization to support them (although one commenter above has defended the "
Stand Firm 2009
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