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Meaning of rollback in English:

rollback

Pronunciation /ˈrəʊlbak/

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noun

1North American A reduction or decrease.
‘a 5 per cent rollback of personal income taxes’
- ‘The economic downturn has cast a pall over CEO compensation, but that doesn't mean that CEO pay cuts or rollbacks are in the offing.’
- ‘Emboldened by these developments, corporations began a rollback of worker gains.’
- ‘The construction unions were using their pension funds, which own 5 million shares of Kroger stock, to help fellow unionists draw a line in the sand against health-care rollbacks.’
- ‘These suggest that voters in core Europe may finally be willing to accept rollbacks in the cherished welfare state to get the region's stagnant economy rolling again.’
- ‘The economy has created a wave of wealth that, despite the recent rollbacks of big stock market gains, has spilled over into a wider demographic.’
- ‘Fortunately, the global public appears to be bracing itself for rollbacks.’
- ‘The administration is using its power and authority to accomplish the biggest rollback in employee rights in more than half a century.’
- ‘With the 2005 budget process about to begin, the betting is that the LDP will look for compromise on the rollback of the 1999 tax breaks.’
- ‘The fee rollback will lead to a $7.5 billion widening of the state deficit over the next year and a half, according to Moody's.’
- ‘There would be a rollback of tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans to pay for healthcare and other social programs.’
- ‘Even friends of labor such as the Social Democrat are backing cuts in unemployment benefits and rollbacks in worker protections.’
- ‘The key provisions include limits on unemployment benefits and rollbacks of some regulations that make it difficult to fire workers.’
- ‘We are not suggesting that the strike actions undertaken by organised labour over the past half-year implies a complete rollback of the economic liberalisation of the past twenty years.’
- ‘It also implies a potential rollback of many aspects of economic liberalisation.’
- ‘Among the conservation rollbacks is an attack on the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, issued by President Clinton shortly before he left office.’
- ‘The posturing calls in Congress for rollbacks in federal fuel taxes will die out, as will the ad hoc consumer protests.’
- ‘With this rollback of government, corporate involvement in daily life began to increase dramatically, and brands reached into the public sphere as never before.’
- ‘The 1990s saw a rollback in government regulation at the same time as rapid growth in information technology.’
- ‘They have their own de facto border controls, laws, and an 80,000-strong army, and will be loath to permit any rollback of their autonomy.’
- ‘This is being called a victory because there weren't rollbacks.’
reduction, cut, decrease, retrenchment, trimming, salami slicing
2Computing
The process of restoring a database or program to a previously defined state, typically to recover from an error.
‘Modeling tables inside of your object means you also have to create a decent locking mechanism, complete with commits and rollbacks - something that most programmers are equipped to do.’
- ‘You may be thinking this process is complicated, but using transactional rollbacks actually is rather easy.’