Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Decreasing in stages: a step-down gear.
- adj. Electricity Serving to reduce voltage: a step-down transformer.
- n. A reduction in amount or size.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In electricity, a transformer or other device for lowering the potential in an electric circuit.
- Serving to convert a current of higher voltage into one of lower voltage: said specifically of transformers and allied devices.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Elec.) Transforming or converting a current of high potential or voltage into one of low voltage.
WordNet 3.0
- v. give up or retire from a position
- v. reduce the level or intensity or size or scope of
- n. the act of decreasing or reducing something
Examples
“The timing of her announcement to step-down was brilliant and lacing it with riddles left the Pundits scratching their heads too dumb to understand her wisom in it all.”
“Two years later, Henry was spending every weekend in Canterbury and two days a week at a step-down facility, really a well-staffed rehabilitation unit, which was part of the Cygnet hospital group in Lewisham in southeast London.”
“October 2009–present: Cygnet Lodge, a “step-down” facility or halfway house, Lewisham, southeast London.”
“The both of you are a disgrace to the American people and you should both step-down.”
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“I don't recall Bill Clinton being asked to step-down by "top" Democrats.”
“In the WHC pulmonary step-down unit where many patients go after leaving intensive care, one nurse often has to care for four patients on respirators, said nurse Blondina Mays.”
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“This will not change without replacing every step-down transformer at the street to provide higher voltage to the home for charging car batteries, and another transformer in the home to further step down voltage to meet the voltage requirements of everything else in existing homes.”
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“Karen expressed our wishes to Paul, and right before he announced his step-down, he reverted the rights to us (which we had been requesting for about five years) so we could do the project the way we saw it.”
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“When differences in ‘productivity’ in health care are the vocabulary in which we discuss healthcare reform, think about the difference between waiting and resting at home for a week before you see your new cardiologist and that week spent in a hospital journey from CCU to step-down to discharge home.”
“Person then progresses thru the hospital system to step-down unit, to various increases in activity level and finally after a treadmill test might be sent home.”
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