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Definition of Standdown

1. Noun. A suspension and relaxation from an alert state or a state of readiness.

2. Noun. (military) a temporary stop of offensive military action.

Definition of Standdown

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Standdown

standardizing standardless standardlessness standardly standardness standards standards and guidelines standards compliance standards compliant standards of identity

standaway standby standby pulse generator standbying standbys standdown (current term) standdowns standee standees standel

standels standen stander standers standest standeth standfast standfasts standfirst

Literary usage of Standdown

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Challenges in U.S.-Asian Policy: Hearing Before the Committee on by Nancy Lubin (1999)
"... a negotiated settlement—both sides would agree to a military standdown, which is actually what we asked for, a military standdown of major new offenses. ..."

2. Zones of Strain: A Memoir of the Early Cold War by Alfred Connor Bowman (1982)
"About ten partisan standdown ceremonies had to be held, after ample and painstaking preparation, as my experience in Parma could attest. ..."

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