STEPBACK

step back

Verb

  1. To stop what one is doing and evaluate the current situation.
    Perhaps we should step back for a second and think about solving this problem a different way.
  2. To prevent oneself from becoming emotionally involved in a certain situation.
    As a therapist sometimes you have to step back from your clients' lives.
  3. to depart driving the train following the train they arrived into the station driving, so as to decrease service turnaround time.


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