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📖 Определения и значения для слова standby

📒 a person or thing that can always be used if needed, for example if somebody/something else is not available or if there is an emergency

  • I always keep a pizza in the freezer as a standby.
  • a standby electricity generator
  • Wilson has been called into the squad as a standby.

📒 ready to do something immediately if needed or asked

  • The emergency services were put on standby after a bomb warning.
  • As the level of the water rose, villages were put on evacuation standby.
  • The troops are on 24-hour standby (= ready to move at any time of the day or night).

📒 ready to travel or go somewhere if a ticket or something that is needed suddenly becomes available

  • He was put on standby for the flight to New York.
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