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stand downverb
To wait; to stop pursuing or fighting.
stand downverb
To withdraw or retire from a position or from a team. transitive and/or intransitive
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Stand down
Stand down means to go off duty or relax from a state of readiness, particularly in a military situation.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of stand down in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of stand down in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of stand down in a Sentence
Huawei is very iconic to the Chinese, kind of like Apple to us, so putting them on the entity list is a real slap in the face and threatens to take the trade war from economics to war over nationalistic pride, it makes it very difficult to stand down.
To those remaining at the refuge, I love you. Let us take this fight from here. Please stand down ... Please go home.
The administration was who I needed to notify because I needed to notify the people who could make the decision to stand down on shooting me down, and would let me land and take me into custody alive on the other end.
**ALL PATRIOTS ITS TIME TO STAND UP NOT STAND DOWN!!! WE NEED YOUR HELP!!! COME PREPARED.
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When the police are ordered to stand down and the arrests aren't made for vandalism all the way up through arson and serious assaults, I don't think it helps, i think it sends the wrong signal… And I think that I wouldn't call them protests -- I think there were legitimate protesters, but I also think there were thugs who were out to intimidate people.
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