: the act or an instance of rolling back
a government-ordered rollback of gasoline prices
rolled back; rolling back; rolls back
1
: to reduce (something, such as a commodity price) to or toward a previous level on a national scale
2
: to cause to retreat or withdraw : push back
3
: rescind
attempted to roll back antipollution standards
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Examples of rollback in a Sentence
Noun
a government-ordered rollback of gasoline prices
a rollback in environmental regulations
a rollback of previous wage concessions
Verb
lobbyists for the industry pressured the legislators to roll back the new automotive safety standards
Recent Examples on the Web
Tom Warren, The Verge, 24 July 2024
Zoom out: Then there are policy threats that could hurt future sales, including a rollback of the Inflation Reduction Act for certain clean energy manufacturing projects and consumer incentives.
—Hope King, Axios, 24 July 2024
Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
Many jurisdictions that expanded access to early or mail-in voting during the pandemic ended up rolling back those expansions after 2020.
—Kaleigh Rogers, ABC News, 6 Sep. 2024
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Noun
To prevent this from happening again, CrowdStrike is promising to improve its Rapid Response Content testing by using local developer testing, content update and rollback testing, alongside stress testing, fuzzing, and fault injection.
—Tom Warren, The Verge, 24 July 2024
Zoom out: Then there are policy threats that could hurt future sales, including a rollback of the Inflation Reduction Act for certain clean energy manufacturing projects and consumer incentives.
—Hope King, Axios, 24 July 2024
Verb
Options follow: Rapid Use of the Congressional Review Act: Speaking of low-hanging fruit, in the early days of Trump’s presidency, the CRA played a significant role in rolling back regulations.
—Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
Many jurisdictions that expanded access to early or mail-in voting during the pandemic ended up rolling back those expansions after 2020.
—Kaleigh Rogers, ABC News, 6 Sep. 2024
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“Rollback.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rollback. Accessed 11 Sep. 2024.
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