step down's Usage Examples:

In 1999, the Scotland national football team manager Craig Brown was filmed singing Billy Boys and faced calls to step down from his position in charge of the Scotland national football team.

Hansen announced in the academic year 2011 that she would step down as Bates College president.

Management In June 2020, Matalan confirmed that they would name a new chairman and a new chief commercial officer less than a month after John Mills stated he would step down from the board.

conflict at the beginning of the mission was precipitated by the refusal to step down from power of Yahya Jammeh, the long-standing President of the Gambia.

Caliguiri refused to allow his declining health to affect his leadership and declined to step down as mayor.

On March 6, 2020, Polgreen announced that she would step down as editor-in-chief to become the Head of Content at Gimlet Media.

As a result, she decided to step down from her Sunday show.

The Centaurs started their season under coach Len Roitman, who would step down amid poor results to focus on his role as general manager, making way for former Cosmos star midfielder, Yugoslavian Vladislav Bogicevic.

FC and Celtic FC but instead he criticized the fact that Bolton were pushovers and that he thought the SPL (Scottish League) was a step down from Portugal.

to step down by the Druze sheikhs.

Resignation and retirementOn 2 February 2006, Kolvenbach informed the members of the Society of Jesus that he intended to step down in 2008, the year he would turn 80.

At the 2011 Labor National Conference Sherry told Gillard he wanted to step down from the cabinet as part of the upcoming cabinet reshuffle.

Synonyms:

depart, retire, top out, renounce, vacate, quit, leave, pull up stakes, give up, fall, resign, leave office,

Antonyms:

take office, enter, conform, equal, stay in place,