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stand down

1. to step down, particularly from the witness stand in a courtroom. The bailiff told the witness to stand down. Please stand down and take your seat.

2. [for military forces] to move away from readiness for war. After the peace treaty was signed, troops on both sides stood down.

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There was little of that sort of customary thing where the tenor and the soprano stand down by the footlights, warbling, with blended voices, and keep holding out their arms toward each other and drawing them back and spreading both hands over first one breast and then the other with a shake and a pressure--no, it was every rioter for himself and no blending. A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context `If that's all you know about it, you may stand down,' continued the King. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Carroll, Lewis View in context Wery proud o' that machine he was, as it was nat'ral he should be, and he'd stand down in the celler a-lookin' at it wen it was in full play, till he got quite melancholy with joy. The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club by Dickens, Charles View in context			stamp a fire out stamp as stamp on stamp onto stamp out stamp out of stamp with stampede stampede in stampede into stampede out of stamping ground stand stand a chance stand a chance of stand and deliver stand apart stand around stand aside stand at stand back stand back of stand between stand by stand corrected stand down stand for stand ground stand head and shoulders above stand in stand in awe stand in good stead stand off stand off from stand on stand on ceremony stand on dignity stand on head stand on its head stand on own feet stand on own two feet stand on two feet stand or fall by stand out stand out a mile stand out from the crowd stand out like a sore thumb stand outside stand over stand pat stand shoulder to shoulder			stand back of stand bail stand bail stand bail stand behind stand behind stand behind someone or something stand between stand between stand by stand by stand by stand by stand by Stand By AC Supply Stand By For Ram stand by guns Stand by Me Stand By/Stop stand clear stand clear of something stand close to someone or something stand comparison stand comparison stand comparison stand comparison stand comparison stand corrected Stand Density Index Stand Density Management Diagram stand down Stand Establishment Decision Aid stand facing stand fast stand fast stand fire stand firm stand firm stand firm against Stand Firm World Ministries stand for stand for stand for stand for stand for stand ground stand ground stand ground stand ground stand ground stand guard stand guard stand guard stand guard stand head and shoulders above Stand idly by stand in stand in stand in stand in stand in

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