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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fallback
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Do you have an alternative plan to use as a fallback?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Even the final fallback position, Micawberism over the economy, seems doubtful.
▪ I had organised two more fallback packages that would come in handy now.
▪ If you go bankrupt my earnings will be our only fallback.
▪ So prepare yourself well, with fallback and contingency plans, if your first offer is rejected.
▪ That will provide a fallback for the unfortunate citizens of Lancashire, who have a very extravagant Labour council.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
fallback

fallback \fall"back\, n.

  1. The act or process of falling back.

  2. Something or someone to which one resorts as an alternative to a failed resource or method.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fallback

also fall-back, as a noun, "a reserve," 1851, from verbal phrase, from fall (v.) + back (adv.), which is attested in the sense of "retreat" from c.1600. As an adjective, from 1767 as a type of chair; 1930 as "that may be used in an emergency."

Wiktionary
fallback

a. That can be resorted to as a fallback. n. 1 An act of falling back. 2 A backup plan or contingency strategy; an alternative which can be used if something goes wrong with the main plan; a recourse. 3 (context construction English) A reduction in bitumen softening point, sometimes called refluxing or overheating in a relatively closed container.

WordNet
fallback

n. to break off a military action with an enemy [syn: disengagement, pullout]

Wikipedia
Fallback

Fallback is a contingency option to be taken if the preferred choice is unavailable. It may specifically refer to:

  • A signal of inferior quality in HD Radio
  • Fallback font in graphic user interface and typesetting
  • Fallback voting
  • A feature of a modem protocol, see Fall back and forward
  • Happy Eyeballs (also called Fast Fallback), an IP networking technique

Usage examples of "fallback".

The United States was wearying of being the perpetual fallback stabilizer, especially since the Mideast equilibrium had dissolved into ultranationalist and water rights issues.

She would make the fallbacks in the morning, she decided, when she was fresh and rested, and freed herself from the system.

My fallback during dry periods with the catering business was housecleaning, which paid a reliable eight bucks an hour.

Some of the worst-case outcomes were going to require counteractions that he would have to undertake by himself, through private and discreet ventures—including the ultimate fallback of evacuating his entire family from Commonwealth space altogether.

Nevertheless, it remained the only plan they had - their worst except for the others, said Toby - and accordingly they settled to an apprehensive wait of five days while Toby and his team leaden plotted fallbacks for the many unpleasant contingencies should the plot abore everyone to be signed out of his hotel and packed.

Farming might have been an adequate sort of booby prize for one or at most two of their sons, sort of a fallback for any offspring who happened to suffer major head injuries or fall into chronic alcoholism.

Notable among these failures of ours are oak trees, whose acorns were a staple food of Native Americans in California and the eastern United States as well as a fallback food for European peasants in famine times of crop failure.