rollback

Thân thiện

The store announced a rollback on cereal prices this week.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A reduction of prices back to a previous, lower level: An official or corporate action of returning prices to an earlier, typically lower, standard.
   • The act of forcing an enemy to retreat or withdraw: A military or strategic action that pushes an adversary back from their position.

Usage Examples

• Noun (Price Reduction):
  • The government announced a price rollback on essential medicines.
  • The supermarket chain implemented a rollback on over 100 grocery items last week.
• Noun (Forcing Withdrawal):
  • The successful counterattack resulted in a significant enemy rollback.
  • The general's strategy focused on the gradual rollback of insurgent forces from the region.

Advanced Usage

• In Technology/Software: While not the core definition, in computing contexts, "rollback" can refer to reverting a system or database to a previous state. This is a specialized extension of the core concept of returning to an earlier level or condition.
  • After the update caused errors, the IT department performed a system rollback.

Variants and Related Words

• Roll back (Phrasal Verb): The action form of the noun.
  • The company decided to roll back its recent price increases.
  • The army aimed to roll back the enemy's advances.

Synonyms

• Reduction, decrease (for the price meaning).
• Retreat, withdrawal, pushback (for the military meaning).

Related Phrases

• Price rollback: A specific term for reducing prices to a former level.
• Rollback policy: A set of rules governing how and when prices or changes are reversed.

Học thuật

Noun

1. reducing prices back to some earlier level
2. the act of forcing the enemy to withdraw

Từ đồng nghĩa

• push back