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climbdown

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Definitions

  1. A retreat or withdrawal from an earlier position or opinion; a backdown.

Word origin

From climb + down.

Used in a sentence

  • Thursday's court appearance as he waited for his case to be heard was a humiliating climbdown for the flamboyant Texan, who sports the clipped mustache and Saville Row style of English aristocracy.
  • There will be “a cost” to the government’s climbdown on welfare changes at the budget, one of Keir Starmer’s senior ministers has said, as a leading fiscal thinktank said new tax rises appeared increasingly likely.

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