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Backdown vs Climbdown - What's the difference?

backdown | climbdown |

As nouns the difference between backdown and climbdown

is that backdown is an act of backing down; a retraction or withdrawal while climbdown is a retreat or withdrawal from an earlier position or opinion; a backdown.

backdown

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Noun

(en noun)
  • An act of backing down; a retraction or withdrawal.

    • climbdown

    English

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    * climb-down

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A retreat or withdrawal from an earlier position or opinion; a backdown.
    • 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. — Texas cricket mogul pleads not guilty to fraud by Kate Murphy, The Age, June 26 2009

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