: the act or an instance of rolling back
a government-ordered rollback of gasoline prices
rolled back; rolling back; rolls back
1
: to reduce (something, such as a commodity price) to or toward a previous level on a national scale
2
: to cause to retreat or withdraw : push back
3
: rescind
attempted to roll back antipollution standards
Examples of rollback in a Sentence
Noun
a government-ordered rollback of gasoline prices
a rollback in environmental regulations
a rollback of previous wage concessions
Verb
lobbyists for the industry pressured the legislators to roll back the new automotive safety standards
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Marybeth Gasman, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
Wednesday’s host was comedian Amber Ruffin, who kicked off the ceremony referencing the Trump era’s DEI rollbacks and inflation.
—Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 21 Feb. 2025
Maria Gracia Santillana Linares, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
Some of the lawsuits center around the president’s efforts to roll back woke DEI policies and reign in federal spending on waste, fraud, abuse and nonsense.
—Haven Shoemaker, Baltimore Sun, 22 Feb. 2025
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Noun
As Adams and Jackson remind us, the removal of the 1890 Scholars Program signals a rollback of opportunity and a disregard for the historical inequities it was designed to address.
—Marybeth Gasman, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
Wednesday’s host was comedian Amber Ruffin, who kicked off the ceremony referencing the Trump era’s DEI rollbacks and inflation.
—Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 21 Feb. 2025
Verb
Trump acknowledged the celebratory month in January, and hosted a reception honoring the occasion last week at the White House, despite his own executive orders rolling back DEI––parts of which a federal judge has blocked.
—Maria Gracia Santillana Linares, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
Some of the lawsuits center around the president’s efforts to roll back woke DEI policies and reign in federal spending on waste, fraud, abuse and nonsense.
—Haven Shoemaker, Baltimore Sun, 22 Feb. 2025
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“Rollback.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rollback. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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