standdown

1. 1.

   a suspension and relaxation from an alert state or a state of readiness

   Synonymsstand-down

   Broaderabeyance
2. 2.

   (military) a temporary stop of offensive military action

   Synonymsstand-down

   Broaderstop

   military

Other forms of standdown

plural

standdowns·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about standdown

What does standdown mean?

standdown 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 standdown?

standdown has 2 syllables: stand-down. The stress falls on "stand".

What is another word for standdown?

Close synonyms include stand-down, stand-down. 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 standdown a common word?

standdown is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.