fallback
IPA: fˈɔɫbæk
noun
- 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.
- (construction) A reduction in bitumen softening point, sometimes called refluxing or overheating, in a relatively closed container.
- Pulverised material that falls back to earth after a nuclear explosion; fallout.
verb
- Misspelling of fall back. [Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fall, back.]
adjective
- That can be resorted to as a fallback.
fall back
IPA: fˈɔɫbˈæk
verb
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fall, back.
- To retreat.
- To fail to fulfill a promise or purpose.
- To turn the clocks back for daylight saving time.
fall-back
IPA: fˈɔɫbæk
noun
- Alternative form of fallback [An act of falling back.]
Examples of "fallback" in Sentences
- I think this fallback is useful.
- And no, I will not accept this fallback.
- This fallback behaviour can be exploited.
- It is a frequent fallback to this article.
- A fallback would be to be more comprehensive.
- Hence the fallback to the traditional values.
- Arbitration is the final fallback for serious disruption.
- His fallback was a nearby commercial building he hoped to one day turn into a coffee shop.
- I was raised Catholic, so my fallback is heaven and Jesus, but, yeah, it is SO difficult to explain.
- The fallback ethics argument against Taylor is that he should at least have disclosed the approach from Starr to his readers.
- My fallback is law school: it takes less time and when you're done you make your living talking a lot without actually saying anything.
- A mixed approach is possible that tries to combine elements of counter-insurgency with a long-term fallback strategy of containment is a possibility.
- "So, the fallback is to use old studies, done on dissimilar programs (human space flight and Earth/space science missions present very different challenges)"
- The default theme is sometimes called the fallback theme, because if the active theme is for some reason lost or deleted, WordPress will fallback to using the default theme.
- The mechanism used in Gemini to detect and correct repairs is currently applied as a fallback if no semantically acceptable interpretation is found for the complete utterance.
- So, the fallback is to use old studies, done on dissimilar programs (human space flight and Earth/space science missions present very different challenges) and in management environments (NASA-OMB-Congress) that were quite different than they are currently.
- The oil industry's involvement in biofuels is best characterized as a fallback plan in case the world's governments implement aggressive climate policies or OPEC and other oil-rich nations -- where state-owned oil companies reign supreme -- further restrict foreign access to oil.
Examples of "fall-back" in Sentences
- The Liberal fall-back position is the ad-hominem attack.
- Allardyce hopes Santa Cruz will stay but lines up Diouf as a fall-back
- If you haven't already thought about a fall-back plan, start doing that.
- The fall-back is to hold up the Post Office as another example of inefficiency.
- The White House and Republicans are scrambling to reach a deficit-reduction deal soon so they don't have to use the McConnell plan, which members in both parties have described as a fall-back option that would only be used to avoid default.
- The $50 billion fund that has been the focus of partisan barbs in the past week is only a fall-back measure if all other components of the bill fail to forestall another financial crisis like the one that occurred in late 2007 and early 2008, Warner said.
- Gordon took an opposite tack in his report, saying that while America needs to make cutting greenhouse gas emissions its top priority when addressing global warming, it can simultaneously start researching a fall-back plan without creating a massive new bureaucracy.