Stay and Shelve

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Stay

Stay verb - To continue to be in a place for a significant amount of time.

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Shelve is a synonym for stay in postpone topic. In some cases you can use "Shelve" instead a verb "Stay", when it comes to topics like do, hold in abeyance.

Nearby Words: stayed, staying

Shelve

Shelve verb - To assign to a later time.

Usage example: let's shelve the project for now

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Stay is a synonym for shelve in defer topic. You can use "Stay" instead a verb "Shelve", if it concerns topics such as do, put to one side.

Nearby Words: shelf, shelving

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Common collocations

character	stay character	shelve character
series	stay series	shelve series

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