Usually means: Withdraw or retreat from involvement.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. back off: Merriam-Webster
  2. back off: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. back off: Collins English Dictionary
  4. back off: Vocabulary.com
  5. back-off: Wordnik
  6. back off: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. back off: Wiktionary
  8. back off: Dictionary.com
  9. back off: Rhymezone
  10. back off: Phrasal Verb Page
  11. back off: FreeDictionary.org
  12. back off: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. Back Off: A to Z list of the most popular idioms
  14. back off: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. back off: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  16. back off: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. back off: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. back off: Encyclopedia

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

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Back-off: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (back off)

verb:  (literally) To move backwards away from something.
verb:  (idiomatic) To become less aggressive, particularly when one had appeared committed to act.
verb:  (idiomatic) To lower the setting of.
verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see back, off.

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