Definition of "stand down" []

• To wait; to stop pursuing or fighting. (verb)
• To withdraw or retire from a position or from a team. transitive and/or intransitive (verb)

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• "As a result Moqtada al-Sadr ordered JAM to stand down in a six-month truce that he later renewed."
• "The CEO, of course, because his hospital now stood to lose millions of dollars Lawyer LaDue, because Burdick had summarily ordered that he stand down today and that a young associate Mitchell Reece, take over the cross-examination of the new witness."
• "Lepidus ordered the boys to stand down and then spoke for a moment or two with the ephors before making his way to Parmenion and leading him to one side."