Usually means: Secret operatives remain after evacuation.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. stay behind: Merriam-Webster
  2. stay-behind: Wordnik
  3. stay behind: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. stay-behind, stay behind: Wiktionary
  5. stay behind: Dictionary.com
  6. Stay-behind: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. stay behind: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stay behind: Idioms

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (stay behind)

verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stay, behind.
verb:  (idiomatic) To remain where one is, whilst others leave.
verb:  To remain in a classroom or school at the end of teaching, especially to receive punishment.
noun:  Alternative form of stay-behind [One who remains when expected to leave or after others have left.]

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