roll back
phrasal verbroll something back
- to reduce the power or importance of something; to reverse the progress made with something
- Many of the gains made in the last 20 years have been rolled back.
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- to push something further away
- (figurative) to roll back the frontiers of space
- (North American English) to reduce prices, etc.
- to roll back inflation