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plural standees
Somebody who is forced to stand up, for example, on a crowded bus. quotations examples
Recently I received a letter from Mr. A. H. Maclean, who travelled north by the 11-coach "Flying Scotsman", and remarked that the train "was filled to capacity and we were forced to stand in the corridor"—for nearly 270 miles— [...] Obviously the diesel was working well below her load capacity on this schedule and some addition to the formation ought to have been made to accommodate the standees.
1959 September, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 430–431
A free-standing, rigid print (usually life-sized), for instance of a celebrity, often displayed for advertising and promotional purposes. examples