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Definition of Step down
1. Verb. Give up or retire from a position. "The chairman resigned over the financial scandal"
Specialized synonyms: Give Up, Renounce, Resign, Vacate, Retire, Top Out, Fall
Generic synonyms: Depart, Leave, Pull Up Stakes
Antonyms: Take Office
Derivative terms: Resignation, Resignation
2. Verb. Reduce the level or intensity or size or scope of. "De-escalate a crisis"
Generic synonyms: Decrease, Lessen, Minify
Derivative terms: De-escalation, Step-down, Weakener
Antonyms: Escalate
Definition of Step down
1. Verb. (idiomatic) To resign from office. ¹
2. Verb. To gradually reduce something, a little at a time, as an electronic ''step down transformer.'' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Step Down
Literary usage of Step down
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (2005)
"shrugged off his arm and took a faltering step down the slope, back toward the road.
"I'll wait in the car, okay?" "Mimi," he said. He felt angry at her. ..."
2. Thermodynamics for Engineers by James Alfred Ewing (1920)
"The Step-down in Temperature. Use of an Expansion Cylinder in Machines using Air.
... A gas which conforms to that law would suffer no step-down of ..."
3. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1911)
"Since the high-tension winding of this step- down transformer has a total length of
... The records are taken on the low-tension side of the step-down ..."
4. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1912)
"She proceeded to the exit indicated, where a bright light was located directly
in the corridor, and where there was a step down of about 7 inches,—an ..."
5. Recent Developments in Multiple Comparison Procedures by Yoav Benjamini, Frank Bretz, S. K. Sarkar (2004)
"In this paper, we use least favorable configurations to obtain critical values
for both step-down and step-up procedures, valid for both dependent and ..."
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