0 an occasion when the influence of particular laws, rules, etc. is reduced:
1 a reduction of prices, costs, taxes, etc., especially so that they return to a previous level:
First, there is a selective undo mechanism which uses precisely the same dependency and roll-back scheme as that for laws, law applications and proofs.
It is also shown how to write a database which supports atomic transactions and roll-back.
Empirical and anecdotal evidence suggests that very little in terms of roll-back of the welfare state is taking place as a result of increased globalization pressures.
Environment and development policy is stagnating, and indeed we should actually be talking about a 'roll-back' in environment policy.
To other, slightly more exacting, pragmatists, it means a roll-back to the 1947 frontiers.
That is an extreme example, but that sort of difficulty applies through-out with the roll-back suggestion.
The word at the time was "roll-back"—and what a laugh that gives us now!
The memorandum goes on to insist on cuts in social welfare, the roll-back of key public services, and reductions in public sector employment and public sector pensions.
