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词汇 roll back
释义
Idiom
roll backroll back (something)
to return something to a previous condition.
Her staff has pushed to roll back environmental protections.It's unusual for any company to roll their prices back.
Usage notes: often said about prices or laws

Phr V
roll back
rolls, rolling, rolled
roll back sth or roll sth back
to decrease the amount of power or control that a particular system has
A new economic policy which would roll back state ownership of resources.
roll-back
noun singular
the roll-back of communism
American to reduce the cost or price of something
The steel industry rolled back prices last month.
roll back
if an army rolls back, it moves back from its position
The attacking troops rolled back.
phraseroll back1. roll back sthroll sth back to reduce the power or influence of a system, government etc, which has been increasing too much: Republican senators talked of rolling back communist influence in Asia. reforms aimed at rolling back state control of the economy SIMILAR TO: reduce2. roll sth backroll back sth AmE if the government or someone in authority rolls back something, they reduce the price of it: The Senate voted to roll back the gas tax by 5 cents a gallon. SIMILAR TO: reduce, cut3. roll back sb/sthroll sb/sth back to force an enemy army to move back from its position: Von Ludendorff's army pressed forward in the hope of rolling back the British to the Channel. SIMILAR TO: push back4. roll back the years to make people remember something good that happened in the past, especially by doing something similar in the present: With such wonderful performances at the age of 40, Jimmy Connors can still roll back the years and reach into his glorious past.

roll back

1. verb To reduce, limit, decrease, or devalue something, or reset something to a previous level or status. A noun or or pronoun can be used between "roll" and "back." The new administration has been slowly rolling back regulatory legislation. If you roll your prices back, it will be much harder to raise them again without a lot of customer complaints.
2. noun A reduction, limit, decrease, or devaluation of something, or a reset of something to a previous level or status. In this usage, the phrase is usually hyphenated. The roll-back of regulatory legislation has angered many consumer groups. This price roll-back should make our customers happy.

roll something back

to return something to someone by rotating it, as with a wheel or a ball, or moving it back on wheels. I intercepted the ball and rolled it back. Jane rolled back the ball.

roll back

[for something] to return, rotating or turning or moving on wheels. I rolled the ball away, thinking it would roll back. It didn't. I struck the golf ball out of the sand trap, but it rolled back.

roll prices back

Fig. to reduce prices. The store rolled all its prices back for the sale. The protesters demanded that the big oil companies roll back their prices.

roll back

Decrease, cut back, or reduce, especially prices, as in Unless they roll back oil prices, this summer's tourist traffic will be half of last year's . [c. 1940]

roll back

v.
1. To reduce the power or influence of something: The government tried to roll back the growing student movement. When the union achieved a more powerful position, management tried to roll it back.
2. To reduce something, as a price or value, to a previous lower level: We had to roll back prices to compete with the discount stores. After the store owner raised prices on toasters, no one bought them, so she had to roll them back.
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