sit around

English

Verb

sit around (third-person singular simple present sits around, present participle sitting around, simple past and past participle sat around)

1. To spend time sitting idly, not doing anything important.
   • 2025 October 29, James Steward tells Joe Campbell, “Thriving on the stock exchange”, in RAIL, number 1047, page 45:

     "When it was all British Rail, if they had some redundant sidings, they would dump all their old trains. There wasn't really a pressure to get rid of them. Now, with private companies owning the sites, you have to pay to store vehicles. Nobody wants old vehicles sat around - they can be graffitied, vandalised - and so the onus really is to move them on.

Translations

sit idly

• Finnish: istuskella (fi), istuksia
• German: herumsitzen (de), rumsitzen (de)
• Latin: desideo, sedeo
• Malay: duduk-duduk
• Maori: moteko
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: дэмий суух (demii suux)

• Vietnamese: ngồi không

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