Step Down

Definition: Step Down

Step Down

Verb

1. Resign or retire from a position; "The Secretary fo the Navy will leave office next month".

2. Reduce the level or intensity of; "de-escalate a crisis".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Step Down

Well, I've decided to get off now because even if I wait fifty years it'll still be the same place once I step down to it. ('Night Mother; writing credit: Marsha Norman)

Gringo? I don't know if that's a step up or a step down from some other things I've been called. (Lilies of the Field; writing credit: William E. Barrett; James Poe)

So step down and lend me your ear (Play that funky music; performing artist: Vanilla Ice)

The Last Step Down (1970)

Step Down to Terror (1958)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

High Tech

• Nikon Step Down Ring for Nikon Coolpix 880 (reference)

• APC Step Down Transformer Nema 5-15R (reference)

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Health

These could be more infections, trouble holding urine when you feel the need to go to the bathroom (urge incontinence), or problems holding urine when you sneeze, cough, laugh, run, or step down (stress incontinence). (references)

Business

Premier Li Peng was constitutionally required to step down from that post. (references)

Economic History

Togo

He has promised to step down from power in 2003, when his presidential mandate runs out. (references)

Italy

Berlusconi, however, was forced to step down in January 1995 when one member of his coalition withdrew support. (references)

Taiwan

Cabinet-level officials have been forced to step down and have been investigated for scandals taking place years ago. (references)

Human Rights

Guatemala

The pledge was short-lived; in July the President asked Alvarado to step down. (references)

Bangladesh

In 1999 Jatiya Party leader Ershad entered into an alliance with other opposition parties to pressure the Awami League Government to step down. (references)

Guatemala

On July 18, appeals court Judge Wilewaldo Contreras decided not to step down when the Archbishop's Human Rights Office challenged his impartiality for his friendship with military defense lawyer Julio Cintron Galvez and for having presided over the decision to commute a 1996 homicide charge against Villanueva. (references)

Political Economy

Kenya

President Moi has stated publicly that he intends to step down after general elections in 2002, as required by the current constitution. (references)

Indonesia

Since the removal and appointment of Indonesia's Police Chief requires DPR approval, which Wahid did not have, Bimantoro refused to step down. (references)

Bangladesh

The Awami League won a majority in parliamentary elections in June 1996, after a campaign of nonstop hartals in early 1996 forced its predecessor to step down. (references)

Political Rights

Comoros

According to the new Constitution, leaders of the transitional governments on each island also are scheduled to step down after the March 2002 elections. (references)

Somalia

Regional elections in Puntland were held during the year; however, President Yusuf refused to step down, and Chief Justice Nur assumed powers as interim president. (references)

Turkmenistan

During the year, Niyazov stated publicly that he would step down in 2010. In the 1992 presidential election, the sole candidate was Saparmurat Niyazov, the incumbent and nominee of the Democratic Party. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

zbres (alight, bring down, climb down, debus, deduct, descend, dip, discount, dismount, dive, drop off, go down, knock off, let off, light, lower, reckon off, recoup, subduct, subtract, take away). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نزل (bring down, camp, cantonal, climb down, come down, decline, depress, descend, drop, get down, get off, glide, go down, hostel, inn, lodge, lodging house, low, lower, miscreant, move, nest, pull down, put down, rascal, reach down, road house, scab, scroll, send, shade, sink, slip down, take down, tavern), ‏تنازل (abdicate, back down, cede, concede, concession, condescend, deign, demission, disclaimer, give ground, give in, give up, part with, pass up, recede, recession, relinquish, renounce, renunciation, resignation, stand down, surrender, transfer, waive, waiver, yield), ‏خفض (ax, axe, bear, bring down, cut, debase, deplete, depreciation, depress, dropping, lessen, lower, lowering, mark down, minimize, pull down, put down, rebate, recline, retrench, scale down, shorten, sink, slake, slam, slash, stitch down, subdue, turn down, whittle down), ‏إنسحب ل, ‏إنسحب (draw back, drop, drop out, move back, pull back, pull out, push off, recede, retire, retreat, separate, shag off, slope, smooth away, stand down, subtract, withdraw). (various references)

Bulgarian 

слизам (climb down, come down, detrain, dismount, drop, get down, get off, get out of, go down, land, pop down, step out), спускам се (decline, drop, fall, fling, flow, get down, haul down, lour, lower, pitch, shoot, shut down, shut in, sink, swoop, take downhill), оттеглям се (adjourn, back, back away, disengage, draw back, draw off, draw out, fall back, fall off, give back, give way to, pull back, recede, repair, retire, retreat, retrocede, retrograde, run out, scuttle, seclude, withdraw), намаляващ (flagging, languishing, remissive, thin, waney), понижаващ. (various references)

Chinese 

下臺 . (various references)

Czech

sejít dolù. (various references)

Finnish

astua alas (alight, descend). (various references)

French

se soustraire, se retirer, se désister (stand down), descendre, démissionner (stand down), abaisser (make a stroke). (various references)

German

zurücktreten (abdicate, back out, come second, decline, diminish, fade, fall back, go down, kick back, recede, rescind, resign, retrogress, step back, subside, to recede, to rescind, to retire, to retrogress, to step back, withdraw), hinabsteigen, heruntertransformierend, herabsteigen (climb down), abtreten (abdicate, cede, dismiss, give in, give up, give way, go off, hand over, make smb.'s exit, relinquish, resign, stamp off, to cede, transfer, wear, wear down, wear out, yield, yield up). (various references)

Greek 

κατεβαίνω (alight, climb down, come down, come off, descend, dismount, get down, get off, go down). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפ� ות משר�", ל�"תפטר (get rid of, quit, resign), ל�"פחית (abate, abridge, cut down, decrease, devaluate, diminish, lower, reduce, remit, subtract, take away). (various references)

Hungarian

lelép (exit, to clear out, to get off, to nick off, to piss off, to push off, to sign off, to step down, to step off, to vamoose, to vamose), csökkent (abate, alleviate, attenuate, cut, cut back, decrease, diminish, look down, lower, mitigate, reduce, reduced, remit, to abate, to abridge, to ax, to curtail, to cut back, to cut down, to deflate, to depress, to derogate, to ease, to ease down, to lessen, to lower, to pare down, to pull in, to put down, to reduce, to release, to send down, to slack, to slacken, to step down, tone down, understate). (various references)

Italian

scendere (alight, come down, decrease, descend, dip, dismount, drop, fall, get, get down, get off, get out, go, go down, hang down, lower oneself, sink, slope, to go down). (various references)

Manx

injillaghey (change down, cheap, cheap morally, condescend, cut, cut down, debase, defer, degradation, degrade, demote, demotion, depreciate, depreciation, depress, depression, die down, humiliate, humiliation, level down, reduce, reduction, relegate, sink, subdue, subject, submit, subordinate, subordination, turn down, vulgarization, vulgarize). (various references)

Pig Latin

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Portuguese

exonerar-se, descer (come down, descend, down, drop, fall, get down, get off, go down, go over, lower, prolapse, sink), demitir-se (resign). (various references)

Russian 

спуститься (descend, get off, go down, go downstairs). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

spustiti se (alight, climb down, descend, land, light, perch, shut in), sići (alight, climb down, come down, descend, get down, get off, get out, go down, light), završiti svedočenje, zauzeti niži položaj, penzionisati se (pension off), napustiti službu. (various references)

Spanish

reducir (abridge, bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, cut down on, decrease, dock, lessen, lower, narrow, reduce, set, shorten, weaken), ceder el puesto, bajar (abase, abate, bow, bring down, climb down, come down, cut, decline, decrease, deign, demean, demote, depreciate, descend, detrain, discount, dismount, download, drop, drop off, duck, ebb, fall, fall away, fall back, fall off, get down, get off, get out, go below, go belowdecks, go down, hand down, hang, hop off, let down, lift down, lower, pull down, put down, rebate, recede, reduce, ring down, sag, set out, sink, stoop, subside, take down, trail, turn down, walk down, walk off, wind down). (various references)

Swedish

stiga ner, minska (abate, allay, curtail, decrease, degrade, descend, detract from, diminish, ease, extenuate, fall off, fine away, fine down, go down, lapse, lessen, let up, lower, put down, reduce, sag, shrink, sink, slacken, subside, wane). (various references)

Turkish

istifa etmek (demit, give up, go out, quit, resign, resign one's office, step aside, submit one's resignation, tender one's resignation, vacate), inmek (alight, climb down, come down, decrease, descend, dismount, ease off, fall, fall away, get off, go down, light, sink, step off, step out, subside into, take off), düşmek (behoove, behove, collapse, come down, come down in the world, crash, crumble, crumple, crumple up, decline, decrease, deduct, degrade, dive, droop, drop, drop down, drop off, ebb, end up, fall, fall among, fall down, fall from, fall in a heap, fall off, fall on, fall on evil days, fall over, go down, land, lapse, pitch, plonk, plunge, plunk, recede, rest with, sag, scale down, sink, sink into, subside into, take a toss, tumble, tumble down), düşürmek (beat down, cause to fall, curtail, deflate, depress, drop, flop, knock off, let down, let fall, lower, mark down, overthrow, precipitate, pull dawn, put down, reduce, roll back, scale down, screw down, send down, sink, slim down, spill, take from, throw, topple over, trip), düşüren, azaltmak (abate, alleviate, appease, attenuate, ax, axe, Bate, cut back, cut down on, deaden, decrease, depress, derogate, detract, diminish, dock, fade in, impair, lessen, make a dent in, minimize, mitigate, put down, reduce, retrench, scale down, shorten, sink, slim down, step back, taper off), azaltan, çekilmek (abdicate, be pulled, bolt, bow, bow out, decline, desist, draw away, draw back, draw off, dry up, ebb, edge out, give over, go out, gravitate, opt out, quit, recede, repair, resign, retire, retract, scratch, secede, stand, step aside, walk out, withdraw). (various references)

Ukrainian

спуститися. (various references)

Misspellings

"Step Down" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: stepdown. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: depots, despot, endows, netops, pontes, posted, snowed, stoned, stoped, stowed, wonted.

-3 letters: dents, depot, doest, dopes, dotes, downs, dowse, endow, enows, estop, netop, newts, nodes, nosed, noted, notes, nowts, onset, opens, opted, owned, owsen, pends, peons, pesto, poets, ponds, pones, posed, seton, sonde, sowed, spend, spent, spode, steno, stone, stope, stowp, swept.

+1 letter: pastedown.

+2 letters: pastedowns.