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n. a suspension and relaxation from an alert state or a state of readiness

n. (military) a temporary stop of offensive military action

"Further, after initial resistance in which law enforcement was not only resisted but killed, it would not have been feasible to standdown."

suspension    abeyance    stop    stoppage