n
(computing) An act of backporting.
v
To bring jobs previously outsourced back into the company to be performed internally.
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(informal, travel, aviation) To repeatedly cancel and rebook a reservation in order to refresh ticket time limits or other fare rule restrictions.
v
(intransitive) To return to a place.
n
(informal) A person who repeatedly demonstrates the propensity to overcome downturns or periods of bad publicity, and rebound to victory or popularity.
v
(intransitive) To engage in contrafreeloading.
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(figuratively) To reset.
v
(transitive) To remove from the set of resources put aside for (allocated to) a particular user or purpose.
v
(transitive) To question someone, or a group of people, after the implementation of a project, in order to learn from mistakes, etc.
n
The act of depositing, or material that is deposited.
n
(computing) The restoration of a system in a state of failover back to its original state (before the failure occurred).
v
(transitive) To retrieve, to have an item returned.
v
(intransitive, with "on") To go back on.
v
(intransitive) To reconsider or regret.
v
(idiomatic, intransitive) To restore one's life (or a given situation etc.) to a normal state, after a calamity, shock etc.
v
(transitive) To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).
n
Obsolete form of recheat (“hunting signal blown on a horn”). [(archaic) A series of notes blown on a horn as a signal in hunting to call back the hounds when they have lost track of the game.]
v
(intransitive) to focus on something else
v
(obsolete, transitive) To throw back.
v
(intransitive) To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To adjourn; to put off.
v
(transitive) To lade or load again.
v
(transitive, now rare) To place (people or horses) in relays, such that one can take over from another.
v
(transitive) To send or give back.
v
(transitive) To postpone.
n
(obsolete) A sending back.
v
(transitive) To replace the panes of.
n
(archaic) A backward stroke of the hand.
v
To change the route taken by something.
v
(intransitive) To fall back; to revert.
n
The act of storing again, or in another place.
n
a reversal in the trend of the price of a stock or commodity
v
(transitive) To grant back.
v
(intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
n
(obsolete, rare) A return; a moving back.
v
To travel to a more urban area in the evening and from it in the morning.
v
(transitive) To cause to return to a former condition.
v
To walk again, specifically to walk where one has already walked.
v
(transitive) To move (goods) to another warehouse.
v
To reinvest funds from a maturing financial security in the same or similar investment.
v
(transitive, computing, databases) To return to the previous state.
v
(slang) To revisit, repeat, or do something over.
n
(sometimes attributive) Anything put to good use that would otherwise have been wasted, such as damaged goods.
v
(transitive) To return (something) to its origin.
n
The reimposition of an earlier and usually higher tariff.
v
To start or restart doing something from the beginning or with a clean sheet.
v
(idiomatic, transitive, intransitive, US) to begin again; to return to the beginning
v
(transitive) To bring back from retirement; to reinstate.
v
(transitive, idiomatic) To win (something) that one has previously lost.
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