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noun roll·back \ ˈrōl-ˌbak \

Definition of rollback

:the act or an instance of rolling back

a government-ordered rollback of gasoline prices

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Examples of rollback in a Sentence

a government-ordered rollback of gasoline prices
a rollback in environmental regulations
a rollback of previous wage concessions

Recent Examples of rollback from the Web

And while Senate Republicans across the political spectrum described the latest proposal as a way to sustain the ACA rollback effort, the prospect of an immediate up-or-down vote in the House raised alarms.

— Alaska Dispatch News, "GOP’s ‘skinny repeal’ of Obamacare up in the air after key senators deliver ultimatum," 27 July 2017
Yet conservatives continued to push for a more wholesale rollback of the Affordable Care Act - highlighting the danger for all Republicans of failing to achieve a promise most of them made on the campaign trail.

— chicagotribune.com, "Revised Senate health care bill still lacks the votes to pass," 13 July 2017
The agency has received more than 467,000 comments, many of them critical of potential rollbacks, but also some from businesses large and small pleading for relief from regulatory costs or confusion.

— danielle ivory and robert faturechi, New York Times, "The Deep Industry Ties of Trump’s Deregulation Teams," 11 July 2017
The rollback of a deal reached last year to open up the holy site to liberal streams of Judaism was seen as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's capitulation to pressure by his ultra-Orthodox coalition partners.

— ilan ben zion, Jewish Journal, "Israeli list of unrecognized US rabbis points to rift," 10 July 2017
White House aides have fretted that the president’s focus on the investigation has distracted him from building political support for his policy agenda, including a legislative rollback of the Affordable Care Act that is now pending in the Senate.

— david nakamura, Washington Post, "President Trump locks heads with news media in a social media first," 2 July 2017
The A.M.P.T.P. has responded with outrageous rollbacks that cut to the core of our basic terms and conditions.

— yohana desta, VanityFair.com, "The Writers‘ Strike Didn’t Happen—but an Actors‘ Strike Might," 26 June 2017
Activists have been galled by the Trump administration’s rollback of federal guidance advising school districts to let transgender students use the bathrooms and locker rooms of their choice.

— olga r. rodriguez, The Seattle Times, "Gay pride parades sound a note of resistance — and face some," 25 June 2017
This change will affect Cuba too Ryan Scandaglia, a 2017 University of Pittsburgh graduate who studied abroad in Cuba for six weeks last summer, is disappointed by Trump’s rollback of the trade and travel policies.

— ramsey touchberry, USA TODAY College, "How Trump's Cuba policy will change college students' plans," 23 June 2017

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