ROLLBACK

Rollback

In political science, rollback is the strategy of forcing change in the major policies of a state, usually by replacing its ruling regime. It contrasts with containment, which means preventing the expansion of that state; and with détente, which means a working relationship with that state. Most of the discussions of rollback in the scholarly literature deal with United States foreign policy toward Communist countries during the Cold War. The rollback strategy was tried, and failed, in Korea in 1950, and in Cuba in 1961. The political leadership of the United States discussed the use of rollback during the uprising of 1953 in East Germany and the Hungarian ...

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roll back

Verb

  1. To return to a prior state.
  2. To postpone.
    NASA will roll back the shuttle launch due to bad weather.
  3. To retreat.


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rollback

Noun

  1. A return to a prior state.
  2. A withdrawal of military forces.
  3. An operation which returns a database, or group of records in a database, to a previous state (normally to the previous commit point).
  4. An event caused by a roller coaster failing to reach the top of a hill.
  5. a form of flatbed truck adapted or designed specifically as a or for transporting other vehicles

Verb

  1. To roll back.


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