NOUN
- (military) a temporary stop of offensive military action
- a suspension and relaxation from an alert state or a state of readiness
How To Use stand-down In A Sentence
- Once upon a time, a safety officer had a skipper who told him to do a stand-down.
- It would accelerate progress toward a stable strategic environment by adding a more general stand-down of nuclear forces to the gradual builddown now beginning.
