ROLL BACK


Meaning of ROLL BACK in English

1.

To ~ a change or the power of something means to gradually reduce it or end it.

Environmentalists regard these moves as the government taking advantage of the national mood to ~ protective measures...

PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), also V n P

see also rollback

2.

To ~ prices, taxes, or benefits means to reduce them. (mainly AM)

One provision of the law was to ~ taxes to the 1975 level.

PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron)

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