1958, United States Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, United States Army. Corps of Engineers, Port Series, page 33
When men are required to standby due to weather conditione only, and full gangs do standby, they shall be paid at one-half the applicable straight time
1970, Hans W. J. Bosman, Frans Alphons Maria Alting von Geusau, Paul Bareau, The Future of the International Monetary System, page 126
The suspicion may be there, justified or not, that the lending, standbying, or swaping[sic] countries may agree among themselves not to hurt each other
1994, Gaylord Kelshall, The U-Boat War in the Caribbean, page 405
Orders went out to Drewitz in U525 to turn back from the Caribbean as well as Von Harpe in U129, to standby as emergency tankers.
1996, Richard Rhodes, Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, page 277
standbying one reactor would stop its Wigner's disease infection
2001, Gregory J. Shepherd, Eric W. Rothenbuhler, Communication and Community, page 67
Dispatchers who are angry with police officers often ask them to standby when making unrealistic requests,
2002, Phil Croucher, The Helicopter Pilot's Handbook, page 158
If he has willing and capable hands available, he'll tell us to standby,
