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Reduce to a previous amount, like sale prices: 2 wds
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rollback
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Wiktionary
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n. 1 A return to a prior state. 2 A withdrawal of military forces. 3 (context computing English) An operation which returns a database, or group of records in a database, to a previous state (normally to the previous commit point). 4 An event caused by ...
Wikipedia
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Rollback is a Cold War term for the use of military force to "roll back" communism in countries where it had taken root. Rollback may also refer to:
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ That resolution demands a rollback in utility rates and a scaling back of the market-oriented economic policies imposed by Bucaram. ▪ The gas tax rollback , initiated because gasoline prices spiked this spring, has since fallen ...
WordNet
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n. the act of forcing the enemy to withdraw [syn: push back ] reducing prices back to some earlier level
Usage examples of rollback.
But she immediately sets out one nonnegotiable condition: McGavin must also pay for a rollback for her husband Don.
As Don had learned on the web, a company called Rejuvenex held the key patents for rollback technology, and pretty much could set whatever price they felt would give their stockholders the best return.
The rollback procedure started with a full-body scan, cataloging problems that would have to be corrected: damaged joints, partially clogged arteries, and more.
The rollback was a suite of biological adjustments, not a time machine with digital readouts.
Don wondered if any of his neighbors were watching them through their windows, or zooming in on them with their security cameras: the robot and the rollback, two miracles of modern science, marching along, side by side.
There was, as Randy Trenholm had said, lots of discussion of the peculiar circumstances of his rollback, and he found reading it made his stomach turn.
Unlike, he was sure, every other person who had undergone a rollback, he really could use the break.
Don had learned on the web, a company called Rejuvenex held the key patents for rollback technology, and pretty much could set whatever price they felt would give their stockholders the best return.
And many of the most thoughtful advocates of deterrence of Iraq argue that just as the United States abjured rollback of the USSR during the Cold War because of the fear of the costs of doing so, we should abstain from regime change in Iraq for the same reasons.
One was a consumer advocate for CBS television, a former runner-up to Miss North Carolina in the Miss America contest, thirty years old, rather puckishly committed to a variation on the original Ann-Margret coiffure which, given all proper due, admirably suited her auburn hair, opinionated, contentious beyond belief, and directly responsible for a Xerox price rollback that had cost the firm nearly a quarter of a million dollars.
Kent was attacking the Baltimore and Ohio wage rollback, and the one on the Pennsylvania before that.
In the end, White got a modest rollback in the fees, but most of the money stayed in the program.
Saddam regime means a return to long-denied freedoms for all Iraqis, it may also mean at least a temporary rollback of some hard-won freedoms for millions of Iraqi women.
Another uphill charge and rollback, and he had the bug turned around far enough that he could make a jolting circle back into the forest road.
The rollback of perceived gains made by the Soviet Union, notably in Central America, was the centerpiece of foreign policy during his first term in office.