step down

Questions about step down

What does step down mean?

step down means "give up or retire from a position". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for step down?

Close synonyms include leave office, quit, resign, de-escalate, weaken. 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 step down a common word?

step down 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.