backout
/ˈbækˌaʊt/
noun
- An act of withdrawing from a commitment, agreement, or plan.
- The company's backout from the deal surprised everyone.
- His last-minute backout left the team without a driver for the trip.
- There was no penalty for a backout if you canceled before the deadline.
- A mechanism or procedure for reversing or undoing a process, especially in computing.
- The database transaction has a backout routine in case of errors.
- The software includes a backout feature to undo changes if something goes wrong.
- Before updating the system, the IT team created a backout plan.
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