To take active responsibility for a group or process, especially within an organization.
To remain present in a retail business, in order to maintain the security of the premises and to serve customers.
To be a member of a deliberative body.
To babysit.
After a long day of walking, it was good just to sit and relax.
To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition.
Of a legislative or, especially, a judicial body such as a court, to be in session.
To occupy a given position.
To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh.
To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate.
To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction.
To accommodate in seats; to seat.
To move oneself into such a position.
To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks.
To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to.
To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of oneself made, such as a picture or a bust.
To be accepted or acceptable; to work.
To be adjusted; to fit.
To take, to undergo or complete (an examination or test).
Subsidence of the roof of a coal mine.
An event, usually lasting one full day or more, where the primary goal is to sit in meditation.