stand down

— Phrasal Verb with stand

/stænd/ verb (past tense and past participle stood)

Definition

› to leave a job or position so that someone else can do it instead: He stood down as party leader.

(Definition of stand down from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

to manage not to be destroyed, harmed or permanently affected by the difficult situation you...

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