Meaning of climbdown | Babel Free

Definitions

A retreat or withdrawal from an earlier position or opinion; a backdown.

figuratively

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Examples

“Thursday's court appearance as he waited for his case to be heard was a humiliating climbdown for the flamboyant Texan, who sports the clipped mustache and Saville Row style of English aristocracy.”

“There will be “a cost” to the government’s climbdown on welfare changes at the budget, one of Keir Starmer’s senior ministers has said, as a leading fiscal thinktank said new tax rises appeared increasingly likely.”

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