Standdown

Word STANDDOWN
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What do we mean by standdown?

A time when soldiers are not on alert

To hold a competition between another person in a bathroom stall to see who will leave first when needing to drop a deuce. Urban Dictionary

Instead of standing up he stands down Urban Dictionary

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The word "standdown" in example sentences

After the very badly handled initial contact, Howell had 51 days to surrender or arrange a standdown. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Further, after initial resistance in which law enforcement was not only resisted but killed, it would not have been feasible to standdown. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It's probably logically equivalent to pointing out that we know how an effective way to stop terrorists from taking over civilian planes and using them for nefarious purposes: it's called "total ground standdown" and we saw it done in September 2001. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And the web site is called standdown. org if you want to find out more about him and all the great work that Roy Foster is doing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

To the south, neither Taipei nor Beijing looks eager to heed Washington's pleas for a standdown from their war of words since Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui's incendiary comments in early July, when he seemed to edge the province toward independence. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Though a Sadr standdown order resolved the situation to a degree, the flare-up also highlighted the destructive role Iran has played in funding, training, arming and directing the so-called special groups and generated renewed concern about Iran in the minds of many Iraqi leaders. ❋ Unknown (2008)

OpEdNews - Quicklink: ACC orders commandwide standdown Friday - ❋ Unknown (2007)

As a result of these three incidents, all of which occurred within just the last few hours, I'm calling on the industry to cease production activities immediately and go into a mine safety standdown. ❋ Unknown (2006)

They also faced an uncertain near-term future that included a shuttle fleet composed of only three orbiters, a shuttle flight standdown of unknown duration, and equally uncertain impacts on the completion and use of the International Space ❋ Unknown (2004)

In Iraq, U.S. troops in Najaf resumed combat operations following a brief standdown for negotiations. ❋ Unknown (2004)

BROWNLEE: Well what you can expect is the crew will get a chance to enjoy about a 30-day standdown. ❋ Unknown (2003)

BROWNLEE: No. Like I said, the standdown allows about 50 percent of the crew to go away on leave while the other 50 percent will stay behind making sure that you know, watching the ship systems, making sure it's safe, during the normal routine that takes place on board a ship. ❋ Unknown (2003)

And once that 30-day standdown period is complete, they'll probably have to go into some type of period where they off-load, you know, all the munitions, if they did bring any back from their deployment. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Those who would oppose these efforts are not going to take a standdown, and we wouldn't anticipate one either. ❋ Unknown (2001)

After nightfall, Kang ordered a complete standdown. ❋ Weis, Margaret (1996)

Tracy sat quietly on the toilet waiting for [the mystery] person two stalls over to leave before takin a poo. [The mystery] pooper wouldn't leave. He, too, was waiting for Tracy to leave so HE could start the [coal train]. 5 minutes passed. All was quiet except for the occasional nose blowing to pass the time. ...enter the [standdown]... Would anyone finally give up and leave? ❋ Jdink (2010)

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