[
UK
/stˈændɒf/
]
[ US /ˈstænˌdɔf/ ]
[ US /ˈstænˌdɔf/ ]
NOUN
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the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided
their record was 3 wins, 6 losses and a tie
the game ended in a draw - the act of repulsing or repelling an attack; a successful defensive stand
How To Use standoff In A Sentence
- The nation is waiting anxiously to see if the Organization of American States can broker a solution to the standoff.
- The standoff ceased with the advent of the midnight curfew.
- The standoff in Congress over the last week has already harmed a US economy struggling to come out of recession and makes the prospect of new jobs in the near term harder. US debt crisis: worst off in Ward Eight face prospect of even harsher poverty
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- The report contrasts the strong words the Obama administration aims at the North with what it calls "halfhearted" U.S. actions to deal with the nuclear standoff. U.S. Policy On North Korea Halfhearted
- a standoffish manner
- The standoff can provide a vent to prevent pressure in the gap from causing distortion or damage.
- Maryam claims onlooker status to distance herself from the blithering Donaldsons and to dodge the advances of Bitsy’s widowed father, but her aloofness is really ontological, an innate standoffishness familiar to Tyler’s readers. New Fiction
- The standoff distance between the hydrophone and polystyrene plate was 0.5 mm for the excimer and ruby lasers.
- A tense standoff occurred when an annex to a house used for meetings was torn down in early October. Christianity Today