lay by

verb

Definition of lay bynext
1
as in to discard
to get rid of as useless or unwanted a politician who had laid by his principles years ago

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2
as in to store
to put (something of future use or value) in a safe or secret place ever since the last hurricane caught them unprepared, they have laid by emergency supplies

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lay by
  1. discard
  2. store
  3. dump
  4. lay in
  5. ditch
  6. stash
  7. unload
  8. lay up
Verb
  • According to a criminal complaint, Briceno, whom authorities said is an undocumented immigrant, used a firearm to shoot inside the doorway of the bar and then discarded the firearm, which law enforcement never recovered.
    — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2025
  • In mahjong, four players draw and discard tiles with different suits, numbers and Chinese characters.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
Definition of discard
Verb
  • Carbon credit monetization – Forward-looking companies are already earning credits by capturing and storing emissions, feeding into voluntary and compliance carbon markets.
    — Peter Bendor-Samuel, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Hospitals can store medical records, lab results, imaging scans, and real time feeds from bedside monitors in a single hub.
    — Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
Definition of store
Verb
  • The last is dumping iron dust into the Southern Ocean to provoke phytoplankton blooms that would suck heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, a move that set off a backlash when an American entrepreneur tried it off Canada in 2012.
    — Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2025
  • For years, the expanse of dirt and weeds had served as a convenient location for locals to dump trash.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
Definition of dump
Verb
  • From left: Katt Campbell lays in hospital with Lincoln on her chest; and shows her bump during the pregnancy.
    — Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Aug. 2025
  • When Nelson got up again, almost 40 shell casings lay in the street.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
Definition of lay in
Verb
  • Kendall Jenner has ditched her clothes for multiple Calvin Klein underwear campaigns and has been working with the brand for years.
    — Hedy Phillips, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
  • That's the general summary of the argument insider Robert Murray of FanSided made on Monday, when suggesting that the slugger could ditch Philadelphia for one of his former clubs.
    — Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
Definition of ditch
Verb
  • Thousands of pages of documents stashed in drawers, stuffed in bags, and piled in boxes in a bathtub chronicle every step of their 16-year quest for justice.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
  • By Monday, some eighteen hundred students had dropped by, and the goods had largely been picked clean—Tetris’d into Ubers, hauled down subway stairs, or just stashed in reusable bags.
    — Ben McGrath, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Definition of stash
Verb
  • The pressure is always on the taker, the player standing, gulping, trying desperately not to unload their lunch onto the turf, preparing to do something theoretically simple — kick the ball into the net from 12 yards with only one opponent able to stop them.
    — Nick Miller, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Some overseas investors have also been unloading government bonds and rotating into Japanese equities , driving its stock markets to fresh highs, analysts who spoke to CNBC noted.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2025
Definition of unload
Verb
  • Walking up the eighteenth hole, Woad laid up into the par-5 finisher before sticking a 3/4 wedge to 2 feet to seal the tournament.
    — Mike Fore, Forbes.com, 27 July 2025
  • Female moths can lay up to 500 eggs at a time.7 Pantry moths are most destructive in their larval stage, so discouraging this stage will help prevent the infestation from spreading.
    — Lauren Wicks, Southern Living, 19 July 2025
Definition of lay up
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