standoff

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: stand=off

CIDE DICTIONARY

standoff, n. 

•  A situation in a contest in which the winner is undecided; a draw or stalemate.  [WordNet 1.5]
•  A successful stand.  [WordNet 1.5]
•  Something that serves to keep one object at a distance from another, such as a prop attached to the top of a ladder to keep it from leaning directly against the vertical surface which suports it.  [PJC]

standoff, a. 

 Serving to keep two objects or parts of a machine separated; as, a standoff insulator.  [PJC]

THESAURUS

standoff

Tweedledum and Tweedledee, aloof, arrest, bell, check, checkmate, cutoff, dead heat, dead stop, deadlock, distant, draw, end, endgame, ending, even break, even chance, fair shake, fifty-fifty, final whistle, full stop, grinding halt, gun, half a chance, halt, insociable, knotted score, lockout, neck-and-neck race, odds, photo finish, reserved, sit-down strike, solitary, square odds, stalemate, stand, standoffish, standstill, stay, stop, stoppage, strike, the same, tie, toss, toss-up, touch and go, uncompanionable, walkout, withdrawn, work stoppage

ROGET THESAURUS

standoff

Equality

N equality, parity, coextension, symmetry, balance, poise, evenness, monotony, level, equivalence, equipollence, equipoise, equilibrium, equiponderance, par, quits, a wash, not a pin to choose, distinction without a difference, six of one and half a dozen of the other, tweedle dee and tweedle dum, identity, similarity, equalization, equation, equilibration, co-ordination, adjustment, readjustment, drawn game, drawn battle, neck and neck race, tie, draw, standoff, dead heat, match, peer, compeer, equal, mate, fellow, brother, equivalent, equal, even, level, monotonous, coequal, symmetrical, coordinate, on a par with, on a level with, on a footing with, up to the mark, equiparant, equivalent, tantamount, indistinguishable, quits, homologous, synonymous, resolvable into, convertible, much at one, as broad as long, neither more nor less, much the same as, the same thing as, as good as, all one, all the same, equipollent, equiponderant, equiponderous, equibalanced, equalized, drawn, half and half, isochronal, isochronous isoperimetric, isoperimetrical, isobath, isobathic, equally, pari passu, ad eundum, caeteris paribus, in equilibrio, to all intents and purposes, it comes to the same thing, it amounts to the same thing, what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gande.