stand down (?.)

• Pax Dei
• Pax Romana
• Peace of God
• abandon
• abdicate
• abeyance
• armistice
• back out
• be pensioned
• be superannuated
• beg off
• break
• breathing spell
• buffer zone
• caesura
• cease-fire
• cooling-off period
• cry off
• day off
• demilitarized zone
• demit
• depart from
• discard
• drop
• drop out
• evacuate
• forsake
• give up
• go back on
• hesitation
• holiday
• hollow truce
• interim
• interlude
• intermezzo
• intermission
• intermittence
• interruption
• interval
• jettison
• jilt
• lapse
• layoff
• leave
• leave behind
• leave flat
• letup
• lull
• maroon
• modus vivendi
• neutral territory
• pacification
• pause
• pax in bello
• peace
• pension off
• pull out
• quit
• quit cold
• recess
• relinquish
• remission
• renege
• renounce the throne
• resign
• respite
• rest
• retire
• retire from office
• say goodbye to
• stand aside
• stay
• step aside
• superannuate
• suspension
• suspension of hostilities
• take leave of
• temporary arrangement
• throw over
• treaty of peace
• truce
• vacate
• vacation
• withdraw
• withdraw from