rollback
rollback noun: a return to a prior state by undoing some operation, especially of policy or price changes.
Noun
rollback (countable and uncountable, plural rollbacks)
- A return to a prior state by undoing some operation, especially of policy or price changes.
- 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.2001 April 8, “Environmental Rollbacks”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 18 Feb 2022
- 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.2004, Paul Robert Milgrom, Putting Auction Theory to Work, page 19
- A withdrawal of military forces.
- An operation which returns a database, or group of records in a database, to a previous state (normally to the previous commit point).
- Near-synonyms: reversion, revert (sometimes synonymous)
- The situation where a rollercoaster fails to reach the top of a hill and instead rolls backward.
- A form of flatbed truck adapted or designed specifically to carry other vehicles, for use in recovery (wrecking, salvage) or for transporting.
- Near-synonym: tow truck (loosely often synonymous)
- Synonyms:
- slide truck, tow truck[Appendix:Glossary
- The strategy of forcing a change in the major policies of a state, usually by replacing its ruling regime, or by totally annihilating an enemy's armed forces and occupying the country, as was done in World War II to Italy, Germany, and Japan.
- 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.2004 December 16, Seumas Milne, “The struggle is no longer against religion, but within it”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 12 Feb 2021
- Politically, Brzezinski was a centrist, or conservative, Democrat. He criticised both the Eisenhower administration’s “rollback” policy towards communism in Europe, and the Nixon-Kissinger detente.2017 May 28, Godfrey Hodgson, “Zbigniew Brzezinski obituary”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2020
- Synonyms:
- regime change
- An uncommanded reduction in the thrust of a jet engine.
- The data was examined with respect to oil pressure. This showed that both the left and right engines' oil pressure generally follow each other until the start of the final acceleration, which resulted in first the right and then the left engines rolling back. The left engine oil pressure rose, as...2010 February 9, Air Accidents Investigation Branch, “1.11.3 Engine oil recorded data”, in Report on the accident to Boeing 777-236ER, G-YMMM, at London Heathrow Airport on 17 January 2008, archived...
Verb
rollback (third-person singular simple present rollbacks, present participle rollbacking, simple past and past participle rollbacked)
- To return to the previous state.
- The server is unstable, we need to rollback the changes.
- To reduce thrust without having been commanded to do so.
- The first test involved placing the restriction immediately upstream of the FOHE. As it was known that the engine would almost certainly rollback during the first acceleration attempt, only the fourth accident acceleration was attempted: the rollback occurred as predicted. Testing was also...2010 February 9, Air Accidents Investigation Branch, “1.16.4.2 Full-scale engine testing (L12)”, in Report on the accident to Boeing 777-236ER, G-YMMM, at London Heathrow Airport on 17 January 2008...
rollback meaning in Tamil
rollback in Tamil
- ஏற்றிய விறையை இறக்குதல், முன்பிருந்த நிலைக்குக் கொண்டுவருதல்
Examples of rollback in a sentence
- 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.2019 April 10, Coral Davenport, “Automakers Plan for Their Worst Nightmare: Regulatory Chaos After Trump’s Emissions Rollback”, in The New...
- The left engine oil pressure rose, as expected, as the engine accelerated: the right engine pressure, however, started to decrease, even though the engine was also accelerating prior to its rollback.2010 February 9, Air Accidents Investigation Branch, “1.11.3 Engine oil recorded data”, in Report on the accident to Boeing 777-236ER...
- As it was known that the engine would almost certainly rollback during the first acceleration attempt, only the fourth accident acceleration was attempted: the rollback occurred as predicted.2010 February 9, Air Accidents Investigation Branch, “1.16.4.2 Full-scale engine testing (L12)”, in Report on the accident to Boeing...
Synonyms of rollback
- reversion
- revert
- slide truck
- tow truck[Appendix:Glossary
- regime change
- roll back
Forms of rollback
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | rollbacks |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | rollbacks |
| present participle | rollbacking |
| past participle | rollbacked |
| past | rollbacked |
Origin of rollback
The noun is a deverbal from roll back. The verb is a back-formation from the noun despite being redundant to roll back.
Words formed from rollback
Questions about rollback
- What does rollback mean?
- Rollback means a return to a prior state by undoing some operation, especially of policy or price changes.
- What is rollback in Tamil?
- Rollback in Tamil is ஏற்றிய விறையை இறக்குதல், முன்பிருந்த நிலைக்குக் கொண்டுவருதல். See Rollback meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use rollback in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is rollback?
- Rollback can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of rollback?
- The plural of rollback is rollbacks.
Words near rollback in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: rollback (page history and authors); rollback (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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