rollback

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Synonyms: roll back, fallback, callback, pullback, rollick, rollock, rollbar, roback, frillback, rollneck, loll back

Antonyms: roll back, fallback, callback, pullback, rollick, rollock, rollbar, roback, frillback, rollneck, loll back

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Noun

1. A [[return]] to a [[prior]] [[state]] by [[undo]]ing some [[operation]], especially of [[policy]] or [[price]] [[change]]s.
2. The situation where a [[rollercoaster]] fails to reach the top of a [[hill]] and instead rolls backward.
3. {{senseid|en|slide truck}} {{lb|en|informal|automotive}} A form of [[flatbed truck]] [[adapted]] or designed [[specifically]] to [[carry#Verb|carry]] other [[vehicle]]s, for use in [[recovery]] ([[wrecking]], [[salvage]]) or for [[transport]]ing.
4. {{lb|en|political science}} The [[strategy]] of [[force|forcing]] a change in the major [[policy|policies]] of a [[state]], usually by [[replace|replacing]] its [[ruling]] [[regime]], or by [[totally]] [[annihilate|annihilating]] an enemy's [[armed forces]] and [[occupy]]ing the country, as was done in [[World War II]] to Italy, Germany, and Japan.
5. {{lb|en|aviation}} An [[uncommanded]] [[reduction]] in the [[thrust]] of a [[jet engine]].

Verb

1. {{lb|en|transitive|computing|databases}} To [[return]] to the [[previous]] [[state]].
2. {{lb|en|intransitive|aviation|of a [[jet engine]]}} To [[reduce]] [[thrust]] without having been [[command]]ed to do so.

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