Usually means: Change of tense in reported speech.
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  1. backshift: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. backshift: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. backshift: Wiktionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (backshift)

noun:  (grammar) The changing of the tense of a verb from present to past in reported speech.
noun:  (statistics) A function on a stochastic process whose value on any random variable is the preceding random variable in the process.
verb:  (grammar, transitive) To change the tense of a verb from present to past in reported speech.

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