n someone who stands in a place where one might otherwise sit (as a spectator who uses standing room in a theater or a passenger on a crowded bus or train)
the allowed number of standees is posted
n a lifesize cardboard cutout (usually of a celebrity)
he had his picture taken with a standee of the president
For every standee at the Metropolitan regards himself as a member of opera's supreme court, delights to reverse or qualify the opinions of the world's other musical centres.
There followed study in New York, with Farrar the Student a frequent standee at the "Met," learning the ways of Melba, Calv, Lilli Lehmann, Jean de Reszk, learning to her .
Another standee, bedecked with gold chains, springs to the defense: "They are trying to move 285,000 people a day.
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June 8, 2013 - Los Angeles Times