rollback
/ɹˈoʊlbˌæk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.70 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A return to a prior state by undoing some operation, especially of policy or price changes.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A return to a prior state by undoing some operation, especially of policy or price changes.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A return to a prior state by undoing some operation, especially of policy or price changes.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The situation where a rollercoaster fails to reach the top of a hill and instead rolls backward.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A form of flatbed truck adapted or designed specifically to carry other vehicles, for use in recovery (wrecking, salvage) or for transporting.
Countable; Informal; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The mining industry also had a hand in two other rollbacks. One was a decision to withdraw a Clinton rule that reduced by 80 percent the permissible standard for arsenic in drinking water."
- "A bidder that knows it may acquire power at a lower price if it withdraws demand early will be more inclined to do so than a bidder that knows it cannot cause a price rollback."
- "Although Mr. Trump has billed his rollback as a boon to the auto industry, automakers say the split-market outcome would be a logistical and financial nightmare for them."
- "Near-synonyms: reversion, revert (sometimes synonymous)"
- "Near-synonym: tow truck (loosely often synonymous)"
- "During the 1990s the Pope, who played such a central role in the rollback of communism, was one of the few international figures who could be heard speaking out against the new capitalist order."