Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To serve; be of service to; be ready to serve or aid.
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- verb transitive To
stand by or near; stand around. - verb transitive To
beset ; stand around in hostility;harass . - verb transitive To
surround ;encompass . - verb transitive To
serve ; be of service to; be ready to serve oraid .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Another note: In his brilliant commentary on The Question Concerning Technology, called The Gods and Technology, Richard Rojcewicz presents what i think is a better translation for "bestand" namely "disposables" for which Lovitt has used the somewhat more abstract "standing reserve."
enowning enowning 2008
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Experts agree that the bestand possibly the onlyway to pay off credit card debt is by yourself, little by little.
Enough Already Peter Walsh 2009
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What if he punctuated his conversational speech with Heideggerian coinages like “bestand,” “gestell,” and “dwelling”?
enowning enowning 2009
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What if he punctuated his conversational speech with Heideggerian coinages like “bestand,” “gestell,” and “dwelling”?
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The holiday season brings out the bestand sometimes the worstin people.
Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder Ann Rule 2008
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It seems inevitable that people without access to natural bestand such as oil wells or diamond mines, that they'd turn to the only inventory they do have—their lives.
Archive 2007-05-01 enowning 2007
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More and more, the bestand of our era is our own intellectual property.
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The problem with seeing the world as bestand, Heidegger said, was it leads you to use things, enslave and exploit things and people, for your own benefit.
enowning enowning 2007
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It seems inevitable that people without access to natural bestand such as oil wells or diamond mines, that they'd turn to the only inventory they do have—their lives.
enowning enowning 2007
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The problem with seeing the world as bestand, Heidegger said, was it leads you to use things, enslave and exploit things and people, for your own benefit.
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wytukaze commented on the word bestand
Citation at uncleft.
November 14, 2008