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Meanings of fallback in English

Portuguese
retirada
Catalan
retirada
Spanish
retiro de tropas

To break off a military action with an enemy.

        retirada
        Usage of fallback in English
        1
        She, however, had a fallback position and, not surprisingly, it involved caves.
        Blind descent: the quest to discover the deepest place on earth
        2
        Navistar's fallback approach now relies on purchased Cummins engines and emissions technology.
        Reuters
        3
        A fire sale of state assets is being mooted as a fallback.
        The Guardian
        4
        Spivey had chosen the fallback option which said we were never there.
        Jack Reacher 01 - Killing Floor
        5
        We waited a day at the fallback point, but they never showed.
        The passage
        6
        I'd say this fallback option is the least we should be doing.
        The Neutronium Alchemist
        7
        Our fallback position is going to be that you write short stuff.
        The Guardian
        8
        Fortunately, as an ex-military man himself, he had prepared his fallback options.
        The Neutronium Alchemist
        9
        I just want a fallback if things turn from bad to worse.
        Stars rain down
        10
        He remained COM silent and crept back to the prearranged fallback position.
        Ghosts of Onyx
        11
        Bush was there in person, wearing one of her fallback Scaasi gowns.
        The new yorker
        12
        Such a fallback is not possible for LDAPS due to the different ports.
        Nagios: system and network monitoring, 2nd edition
        13
        I wanted a fallback option in the event I suffered a career-ending injury.
        On Edge
        14
        The second is to introduce a graduate tax, as a fallback from fees.
        The Guardian
        15
        This was his fallback position when he became even slightly confused.
        IT
        16
        That's a small ship: Aaron has no fallback, nowhere to run.
        The evolutionary void
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        Translations for fallback
        Portuguese
        retirada
        Catalan
        retirada
        Fallback through the time
        Fallback across language varieties
        United States of America
        Common