to leave a job or position, especially an important one
to leave the witness box in a court of law after you have answered lawyers’ questions
to stop employing someone, often temporarily, because there is not enough work for them
But the principal reason he had them shined each morning at the little stand down the street from his apartment was professional.
She’ll be standing down as president at the end of the year.
stands down
standing down
stood down
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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