Meaning of stand down | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To wait; to stop pursuing, stop fighting, or relax from a heightened readiness posture.
   idiomatic
2. To withdraw or retire from a position or from a team.
   ambitransitive

Examples

“They ordered the troops to stand down for the moment.”

“The criminal case was launched after the aviation giant’s subsidiary stood down a trained health and safety representative hours after he directed others to cease work.”

“The remaining four locomotives in traffic […] are all expected to be stood down due to their high engine hours, as well as being due exams which the company is not prepared to undertake.”

“Angela Rayner has stood down from the government after the prime minister’s ethics adviser found she had breached the ministerial code over her underpayment of stamp duty on her £800,000 seaside flat.”

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