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From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  step down
       v 1: give up or retire from a position; "The Secretary fo the
            Navy will leave office next month"; "The chairman
            resigned over the financial scandal" [syn: leave office,
             quit, resign] [ant: take office]
       2: reduce the level or intensity or size or scope of;
          "de-escalate a crisis" [syn: de-escalate, weaken]
          [ant: escalate]

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  step down
     Αγγλικά vb.
     1 παραιτούμαι από αξίωμα
     2 μειώνω κάτι βαθμιαία

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  step down
     vb.
     (lb en idiomatic) To resign from office; to abdicate.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  step down
     vb.
     (lb en idiomatic) To resign from office; to abdicate.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  step down
     vb.
     (lb en idiomatic) To resign from office; to abdicate.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  step down
     vb.
     (lb en idiomatic) To resign from office; to abdicate.

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  step down
     Englanti vb.
     luopua tehtävästä

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  step down /stˈɛp dˈaʊn/ 
  odstoupit

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  step down /stˈɛp dˈaʊn/
  abtreten 
   see: stepping down, stepped down
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  step down /stˈɛp dˈaʊn/
  heruntergehen, heruntersteigen, hinunterschreiten 
   see: stepping down, stepped down
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  step down /stˈɛp dˈaʊn/
   [Am.] zurücktreten  [adm.]
           Note: als
     Synonym: stand down
  
   see: standing down, stepping down, stood down, stepped down
  
           Note: as

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  step down /stˈɛp dˈaʊn/ 
  1. स्थान~छोड़ना
        "He stepped down to be the junior assistant."

From English-Lithuanian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.7.2 :   [ freedict:eng-lit ]

  step down /stˈɛp dˈaʊn/
  1. nužengti, išlipti
  2. pasitraukti, atsistatydinti

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  43 Moby Thesaurus words for "step down":
     abridge, amplify, charge, compress, curtail, cut, cut back,
     cut down, damp, dampen, decrease, deduct, deflate, depreciate,
     depress, diminish, downgrade, electrify, energize, galvanize,
     generate, lessen, loop in, lower, pare, plug in, reduce, retrench,
     roll back, scale down, shock, short, short-circuit, shorten,
     simplify, step up, stiffen, switch off, switch on, take from,
     tune down, turn off, turn on
  
  

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     辞职,下台;走下

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