Usually means: Withdraw or retreat from involvement.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word pull back:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. pull back: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pull back, pull back, pull back: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pull-back, pull-back, pull back: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pull back: Vocabulary.com
  5. pull-back: Wordnik
  6. pull back (from sth): Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. pull-back, pull back: Wiktionary
  8. pull back: Dictionary.com
  9. pull back: Rhymezone
  10. pull back: FreeDictionary.org
  11. pull back: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. pull-back, pull back: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pull back: Legal dictionary
  2. Pull-back, pull back: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pull back: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pull back: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pull back: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pull-back: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pull back, the pull back: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See pull_backs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pull back)

verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, back.
verb:  To retreat.
verb:  (transitive, sports) To pass (the ball) into a position further from the attacking goal line.
verb:  (transitive, sports) To score when the team is losing.

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