stand aside
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.48 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To resign a job or position voluntarily so that someone else can have it instead.
verb
To temporarily recuse oneself from action or decision-making in some domain.
Example Sentences
- "Stand aside, please, so the doctor can get through."
- "It's time he stood aside and let a more qualified person do the job."
- "For months, Dati warned she would refuse to stand aside. Now she has stunned the political class with an open letter to Fillon in Le Monde, a scathing character assassination accusing him of the "lone ambition" of a disillusioned political elite, of doing politics in a way that "never favoured women" and stopping ethnic-minority candidates from progressing at elections. She said he was committing "a sad mistake" in trying to run in Paris."
- "The minister will stand aside during the investigation."