Usually means: Maintain distance, observe from afar.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. stand back: Merriam-Webster
  2. stand back: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. stand back: Vocabulary.com
  4. stand back: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. stand back: Wiktionary
  6. stand back: Dictionary.com
  7. Stand Back (April Wine album), Stand Back (Roxus song), Stand Back (Stevie Nicks song), Stand Back (The Arrows album), Stand Back, Stand-back: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. stand back: Rhymezone
  9. stand back: FreeDictionary.org
  10. stand back: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. stand back: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stand back: Idioms

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Stand back: Sports Definitions

Definitions from Wiktionary (stand back)

verb:  (intransitive) To maintain distance.
verb:  (intransitive) To abstain from participation.
verb:  (intransitive, cricket) (of a wicket-keeper) to stand a long way behind the wicket so as to catch balls from a fast bowler

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