Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
climb-down
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Better an early climb-down in some sheltered private meeting, he argued, than a humiliation on the floor of the House.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
climb-down
climb-down \climb-down\ n. 1. a retraction of a previously held position.
Syn: withdrawal, backdown.
Grand climacteric or Great climacteric, the sixty-third year of human life.
I should hardly yield my rigid fibers to be
regenerated by them; nor begin, in my grand
climacteric, to squall in their new accents, or to
stammer, in my second cradle, the elemental sounds
of their barbarous metaphysics.
--Burke.
Wiktionary
climb-down
n. (alternative form of climb down English)
WordNet
climb-down
n. a retraction of a previously held position [syn: withdrawal, backdown]