stand-down

What does stand-down mean?

stand-down means "a suspension and relaxation from an alert state or a state of readiness". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stand-down?

stand-down has 2 syllables and divides as stand--down under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for stand-down?

Close synonyms include standdown, standdown. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is stand-down a common word?

stand-down is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for stand-down come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.