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

Equivalents

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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