sit on something
(NOT USE)Definition
› to not use something: The supervisors want a tax increase for law enforcement when they are sitting on a huge budget surplus. It's hard to imagine how the government could have sat on this information.
(Definition of sit on something (NOT USE) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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sit by phrasal verb
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sit down phrasal verb
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sit in phrasal verb ACT FOR SOMEONE
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sit in phrasal verb BE PRESENT
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sit on something phrasal verb BE A MEMBER
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sit on your hands idiom
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sit out something phrasal verb
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sit through something phrasal verb
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sit tight idiom
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