noun
- reductions in prices, wages, or benefits to previous lower levels
- reversals of policies, regulations, or programs to earlier states
- processes of restoring computer systems or software to previous versions
Usage: plural form
Usage: plural form; often political or governmental context
Usage: plural form; technology
Examples
- The company announced rollbacks of employee benefits due to budget constraints.
- Environmental groups protested the rollbacks of clean air regulations.
- The new administration promised rollbacks of the previous tax increases.
- IT performed system rollbacks after the software update caused problems.
- Union leaders opposed the proposed wage rollbacks.
- The database rollbacks prevented data loss during the server crash.
- Healthcare rollbacks affected millions of patients nationwide.