standby

Example Sentences

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"Environment, mobility, access to housing: a number of policies are on standby and the region is no longer taking charge of major issues."

From Barron's

Chicharro’s float is carried by 35 bearers, with brothers on standby to relieve them along the procession route.

From Seattle Times

The military also ordered helicopter gunships to fire on protesters and had fighter jets armed with bombs on standby.

From BBC

Some experts suggest that regulations especially hurt small airlines that can’t afford to have spare aircraft on standby or software to handle the compensation claims.

From Seattle Times

But after her berries survived a cold snap in December, she took her industrial heater, which had remained on standby at one corner of her greenhouse, and sold it.

From New York Times