rollbacks

Noun

rollback (countable and uncountable, plural rollbacks)

1. 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
   1. A withdrawal of military forces.
   2. 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)
2. The situation where a rollercoaster fails to reach the top of a hill and instead rolls backward.
3. (informal) 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

4. 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

   Synonyms:

   regime change

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