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fallback::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | disengagement, pullout |
| Type of | retreat |
| Derivation | fall back |
Examples of fallback
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My fallback position is that Yankee imperialism is the best type of imperialism.
From the businessweek.com
Why not just sign someone during the season to provide fallback for the rotation?
From the stltoday.com
The clean energy standard represents a second fallback position to cap and trade.
From the bostonherald.com
Fallback options such as settling for a job at a big-box retailer are long shots.
From the democratandchronicle.com
Of course, many suggested Berkman was signed as a fallback should Albert leave.
From the stltoday.com
Is Wall Street still a fallback option if this football thing doesn't work out?
From the democratandchronicle.com
Shady Glen in Manchester became our fallback awesome-burger place many years ago.
From the orlandosentinel.com
The M Bar isn't necessarily a destination but it's not exactly a fallback either.
From the nytimes.com
In a country full of unique and risky options, yakitori seemed a safe fallback.
From the edition.cnn.com
- Disengagement: to break off a military action with an enemy
- Outback is a fictional character in the Transformers universe.
- An act of falling back; A backup plan or contingency strategy; an alternative which can be used if something goes wrong with the main plan; a recourse; A reduction in bitumen softening point, sometimes called refluxing or overheating in a relatively closed container; That can be resorted to as ...
- A modem speed that is lower than its normal (that is, maximum) speed of operation.
- Fallback is something that happens on failure of call set up or on loss of channels. E.g. when an ISDN call is made the systems try to connect using BONDING, if this fails then fallback occurs so that the ISDN channels are set up using H.221 dialling.
- The UA mechanism of automatically presenting one alternate when the 'main' equivalent(s) can for whatever reason not be presented
- Forces Transcript to use ordinary translation, regardless of whether the interpolation evaluates successfully or fails. The evaluation of the script is not aborted, any other interpolations will evaluate too.
- Emergency, especially (of wages) the dole payment when no work is available.
- A reduction in the softening point temperature of asphalt that occurs when asphalt is overheated for pro-longed periods of time.
