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11stand down from — phr verb Stand down from is used with these nouns as the object: ↑committee …
12Operation Stand Down — is a United States non profit organization providing social services to United States Armed Forces veterans, helping them transition into civilian life. It has chapters across the United States, with one in Nashville, Tennessee among the most… …
13stand down or stand someone down — relax or cause someone to relax after a state of readiness. → stand …
14stand down — PHRASAL VERB If someone stands down, they resign from an important job or position, often in order to let someone else take their place. [V P] Four days later, the despised leader finally stood down, just 17 days after taking office... [V P as n] …
15stand down — RELAX, stand easy, come off full alert. → stand …
16stand down — verb Date: 1681 intransitive verb 1. to leave the witness stand 2. chiefly British a. to go off duty b. to withdraw from a contest, a position of leadership, or a state of alert or readiness transitive verb to remove (as a military unit) from… …
17stand down — Synonyms and related words: Pax Dei, Pax Romana, Peace of God, abandon, abdicate, abeyance, armistice, back out, be pensioned, be superannuated, beg off, break, breathing spell, buffer zone, caesura, cease fire, cooling off period, cry off, day… …
18stand down — remove oneself as a candidate; descend from the witness stand …
19ˌstand ˈdown — phrasal verb to leave an important job or position She ll be standing down as president at the end of the year.[/ex] …
20stand-down — noun Date: circa 1919 a relaxation of status of a military unit or force from an alert or operational posture …
