Meaning

1. to sit (to be positioned on one's buttocks)
2. to sit (to have one's weight on the buttocks or on one's hind legs)
3. to sit (to stop flight somewhere)
4. to sit (to be strongly fastened somewhere; to be positioned)
5. (colloquial) to hang out (to spend some time somewhere)
6. (colloquial) to serve time, to be in for (to serve a prison sentence)
7. (colloquial) to be engaged in something
8. (colloquial) to distrain (to seize somebody's property in place of, or to force, payment of a debt)
9. to reside (to take residence somewhere permanently)
10. (colloquial) to work (to have some position somewhere)
11. (colloquial) to sit on (to have in one's possession)