standing room
Noun
Meaning
standing room (uncountable)
Space in a public area, e.g. on public transport or at a sports or entertainment venue, for people to stand
The bus was packed, and all standing room was taken.
standing-room (uncountable)
Alternative form of standing room
Alternative names
standing-room
Hypernyms
Examples
I only worked theater jobs, but they were all really silly when I first graduated. I was a line monitor at 'Spamalot,' which means I got there at 8 A.M. and told people how much the tickets were for standing room. I was an NYU Medical School fake patient, to teach doctors how to talk to patients.
Had I not been standing already, because the place was standing room only, I asked myself would I have taken the chance and stood up – right, wrong or indifferent?
$70 standing room only.
Komet test pilot Rudolf "Rudi" Opitz was on hand for the dedication of the aircraft and discussed his experiences of flying the rocket-propelled fighter to a standing room only crowd.
In December 2004, the City of Ottawa amended its by-laws and in 2005, the venue was allowed to increase its seating capacity to 19,153 and total attendance capacity to 20,500 when including standing room.
More than 500 people packed three rooms at Dauphin's recreational services facility, leaving only standing room and people listening in from an adjoining hallway.