STEP DOWN
Dictionary entry overview: What does step down mean?
• STEP DOWN (verb)
The verb STEP DOWN has 2 senses:
1. give up or retire from a position
2. reduce the level or intensity or size or scope of
Familiarity information: STEP DOWN used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• STEP DOWN (verb)
Meaning:
Give up or retire from a position
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
leave office; step down; quit; resign
Context examples:
The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month / The chairman resigned over the financial scandal
Hypernyms (to "step down" is one way to...):
depart; leave; pull up stakes (remove oneself from an association with or participation in)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "step down"):
give up; renounce; resign; vacate (leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily)
retire (go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position)
top out (give up one's career just as one becomes very successful)
fall (lose office or power)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Meaning:
Reduce the level or intensity or size or scope of
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
de-escalate; step down; weaken
Context example:
de-escalate a crisis
Hypernyms (to "step down" is one way to...):
decrease; lessen; minify (make smaller)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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"One swallow doesn't make a spring." (Bulgarian proverb)
"Words of wisdom comes out of simple people mouths." (Arabic proverb)
"Where there's a will, there is a way." (Dutch proverb)
