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stand down
vb. 1 (context idiomatic English) To wait; to stop pursuing or fighting. 2 To withdraw or retire from a position or from a team. ''transitive and/or intransitive''
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Stand down
Stand down may refer to:
- In a military context, to stop fighting or capitulate
- In an employment context, it may refer to Termination of employment
Usage examples of "stand down".
She would track Nereid as long as she could, guiding it to its destination, unless she was ordered to stand down.
Those leaders had then been instructed to send orders to their own Houses to stand down their guards on pain of the same sort of assault.
As soon as he could stand down from red alert, he'd get to work on the problem.