Betekenis van pull back In het Nederlands

• 0 to move backwards or away from someone:

  • He leaned forward to kiss her but she pulled back.

  • Michelle pulled back from her mother and wiped the tears from her eyes.

  • The news is that the company intends to pull back from petrochemicals.

  • Businesses have already pulled back on corporate travel.

  • After pulling back, the tanks waited for fighter planes and helicopter gunships to attack the building.

  • Once the troops pulled back from the area, the insurgents reappeared.

  • Stock prices pulled back within minutes of the Fed's announcement, before resuming their rise.

  • We were down 3 per cent when we reported in July, but the rate pulled back to a 1.8 per cent fall since then.

  • The Vikings pulled back to within 10 points at the break.

• 1 to stop supporting or doing something:

  • Both parties indicate they will not pull back from a new peace deal.

• 2 to decide not to continue doing something because of increasing costs or problems:

  • We were ready to go ahead with the project but had to pull back at the last minute.

  • pull back from sth We need to pull back from some of our bigger financial commitments.

  • They pulled back from making hundreds of people redundant.

• 3 to do less of sth:

  • pull back on sth They are starting to pull back on their spending.