0 A fallback plan or position can be used if other plans do not succeed or other things are not available: --
Do we have a fallback position for these negotiations?
1 a fall in the price, amount, rate, etc. of something, especially after having been high --
2 a plan that you can use if your first plan fails --
It also gives the auditor some fallback powers to ensure that, even if all those provisions fail, he can make his report known.
It could be the basic building block for such a design—and a fallback if things go wrong.
Had evolution proceeded by slightly different steps, language might have emerged with signing as its preferred modality, with speech as a fallback for those with impaired visual systems.
Reflexivity should not be a fallback position when outlining an argument that lacks theoretical insight, or valid empirical results.
As a result she may look for fallback positions that will keep her in the religion, in a way that makes all of her beliefs consistent and coherent.
As he saw it, the neo-socialists centred their criticisms on two valid points: the persistent strength of the middle classes and the fallback of capitalism on its national base.
Arguably, the changing trend which encouraged subscription giving rather than endowment, and institutional rather than personal responses, reduced the flow of new funds into these traditional fallbacks of the poor.
Vano is creating a fallback position to protect himself against the revelation of this fact.