Usually means: Withdraw from an agreement previously.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. back out: Merriam-Webster
  2. back out: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. back out: Collins English Dictionary
  4. back out: Vocabulary.com
  5. back-out: Wordnik
  6. back out: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. back out: Wiktionary
  8. back out: Dictionary.com
  9. back out: Rhymezone
  10. back out: FreeDictionary.org
  11. back out: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. back out: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. back out: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  14. back out: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. back out: Legal dictionary

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

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. back out: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (back out)

verb:  (transitive) To reverse (a vehicle) from a confined space.
verb:  (intransitive) To withdraw from something one has agreed to do.
verb:  (transitive) To convince (someone) to withdraw from a challenge.
verb:  (gambling) To bet on someone losing.
verb:  (computing, transitive) To undo (a change).
verb:  (computing, intransitive) To exit a mode or function.
verb:  (MLE, transitive) To draw from behind the back (a knife etc.) (as also bare back).

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