standing by definition

standing by means the time during which a pilot is dispatched to a vessel and is waiting to go on duty to perform pilotage service; “standing by” includes time onboard the vessel, or on shore if the vessel’s owner, master, or agent has scheduled a pilot to be available for pilotage duty;
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standing by means close enough to be immediately involved if needed.
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standing by means, well … it means being there, being close, being beside someone and creating an atmosphere that makes it easy for someone to talk about whatever they want to talk about. And helping anybody who wants to do something, giving a small push forward, supporting. Because after all, men and women are born from mothers.
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More Definitions of standing by

standing by in this context generally means failing to assert one's superior right's to property. Thus Snell's Equity (at paragraph 12-034) describes proprietary estoppel based on acquiescence as applying "where B adopts a particular course of conduct in reliance on a mistaken belief as to B's current rights and A, knowing both of B's belief and of the existence of A's own, inconsistent right, fails to assert that right against B".
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