rollback

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  1. noun A reduction, especially in prices or wages, to a previous lower level by governmental action or direction: a price rollback; a rollback of military supplies.
  2. noun A turning back or retreat, as from a previously held position or policy: hoped for a rollback of support for the opposition's proposed legislation.

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  • But now he had it again Dr. Petra Jones confirmed that his rollback was complete. —  Analog SFF, November 2006
  • He'd been waiting until the rollback was over to get it sized back up, and he'd get it done as soon as he found a good jeweler; he didn't want to trust it to just anyone Ontario had mandatory driver re-testing every two years starting at one's eightieth birthday. —  Analog SFF, November 2006
  • But he paid for your rollback It was Sarah he wanted to have rollback, and Oh, I know, but it didn't work for her, right? —  Analog SFF, November 2006
  • If the rollback were only going to work for one of them, it should have been her, Don knew. —  Analog SFF, November 2006
  • The rollback was a suite of biological adjustments, not a time machine with digital readouts. —  AnalogSFF,January-February2007
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