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climbdown

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climb-down or climb·down (klmdoun)
n.
A retreat from an earlier position or opinion; a backing down: "Agreeing to give up their arms and to yield control of Tripoli represented a major climb-down" (Jim Muir).
Translations
climbdown [ˈklaɪmdaun] nvuelta atrás
climbdown [ˈklaɪmdaun] n (BRIT) → ritirata


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And, without advertising its climbdown, the Bush administration was struggling desperately for a second resolution, which it had previously maintained that it neither needed nor wanted.
and other Security Council members were equally strained by other examples of imperious caprice, and a similar pattern of arbitrary demands from the White House, followed by a climbdown to a reasonable compromise negotiated by the State Department.
 
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