EGAVE

rollback

About 0.38 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A return to a prior state by undoing some operation, especially of policy or price changes. A withdrawal of military forces.
  2. noun A withdrawal of military forces.
  3. noun An operation which returns a database, or group of records in a database, to a previous state (normally to the previous commit point).
  4. noun The situation where a rollercoaster fails to reach the top of a hill and instead rolls backward.
  5. noun A form of flatbed truck adapted or designed specifically to carry other vehicles, for use in recovery (wrecking, salvage) or for transporting.
  6. noun The strategy of forcing a change in the major policies of a state, usually by replacing its ruling regime, or by totally annihilating an enemy's armed forces and occupying the country, as was done in World War II to Italy, Germany, and Japan.
  7. noun An uncommanded reduction in the thrust of a jet engine.
  8. verb To return to the previous state.
    The server is unstable, we need to rollback the changes.

Similar words

push back reversion revert regression throwback regress retrogression rewind backsliding reversing

Often followed by

segment segments of to and transaction in is statement

Word family

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