stay off

1. 1.

   refrain from entering or walking onto

   “keep off the grass”

   “stay off the premises”

   Synonymskeep off

   Broaderavoid

Questions about stay off

What does stay off mean?

stay off means "refrain from entering or walking onto".

What is another word for stay off?

Close synonyms include keep off. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is stay off a common word?

stay off is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.