Meaning of stand aside | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To step sideways to make a space for someone else.
2. To resign a job or position voluntarily so that someone else can have it instead.
3. To temporarily recuse oneself from action or decision-making in some domain.

Examples

“Stand aside, please, so the doctor can get through.”

“It's time he stood aside and let a more qualified person do the job.”

“For months, Dati warned she would refuse to stand aside. Now she has stunned the political class with an open letter to Fillon in Le Monde, a scathing character assassination accusing him of the "lone ambition" of a disillusioned political elite, of doing politics in a way that "never favoured women" and stopping ethnic-minority candidates from progressing at elections. She said he was committing "a sad mistake" in trying to run in Paris.”

“The minister will stand aside during the investigation.”

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