staying power

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stay·ing power

(stā′ĭng)

The ability to endure or last.

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staying power

endurance; stamina

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stay′ing pow`er

ability to endure; endurance; stamina.

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Noun

staying power - enduring strength and energy

stamina, toughness

endurance - the power to withstand hardship or stress; "the marathon tests a runner's endurance"

legs - staying power; "that old Broadway play really has legs"

staying power

noun endurance, strength, stamina, toughness Someone who lacks staying power is unlikely to make a good researcher.

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

staying power

noun

The quality or power of withstanding hardship or stress:

endurance, stamina.

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staying power

[ˈsteɪɪŋˌpaʊəʳ] N → aguante m, resistencia f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

staying power

n → Stehvermögen nt, → Durchhaltevermögen nt, → Ausdauer f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

staying power

[ˈsteɪɪŋˌpaʊəʳ] n → capacità di resistenza

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She had not her sister Hannah's patience or her brother John's sturdy staying power. Her will was sometimes willfulness, and the ease with which she did most things led her to be impatient of hard tasks or long ones.

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For some probably economical reason it was usually a woman who was chosen for this particular duty, and Groby gave as his motive in selecting Tess that she was one of those who best combined strength with quickness in untying, and both with staying power, and this may have been true.

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Nobody but an acrobat will voluntarily spend years at such a difficult mechanical puzzle as the keyboard, and so we have to take our impressions of Beethoven's sonatas from acrobats who vie with each other in the rapidity of their prestos, or the staying power of their left wrists.

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They rode side by side, saving the animals for the rush at the finish, yet putting them at a pace that drew upon vitality and staying power. Curving around a clump of white oaks, the road straightened out before them for several hundred yards, at the end of which they could see the ruined mill.

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