Meaning & use
rollback
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A reversal or reduction of something, such as a price, policy, or software update, back to an earlier state.
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The government announced a rollback of the recent tax increases.
Engineers performed a rollback after the new update caused errors.
A note on using this word
Common in politics (policy rollback), retail (price rollback), and technology (software version rollback).
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