0 past simple and past participle of stay --
2 to continue doing something, or to continue to be in a particular state: --
3 to live or be in a place for a short time as a visitor: --
The rival factions split and each formed their own battalion, which stayed apart until 1921.
Cases were more likely to have stayed away from home than controls, but contact with pets, farm animals and wildlife was similar.
Workers in the formal sector stayed at the same enterprise throughout their working lives.
But as it turned out, the audience rating stayed unusually high for a late-night program and exceeded even the producer's expectations.
Females, by contrast, stayed away from the roost throughout the night, irrespective of the foraging distance they travelled.
Furthermore, agents' ability to exit voluntarily social groups strongly signaled their credibility to existing group members where they stayed.
The media have stayed away from it big time.
In the past, it was women who stayed at home to raise their children who were considered the norm.