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- noun A
reversal orundoing of tasks previously done (often in reverse order)
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Examples
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It's just not worth it kevin ... backout while you still can.
There are GOOD Reasons not to "Friend" Your Dad On Facebook 2009
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I've noticed that people with hg tend to do backouts using "hg backout", because, well, it's a command named "backout".
Planet Mozilla 2009
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Invesco and Prudential - the institutional shareholders understood to have led the backout - are right to say that if energy prices are likely to be high for the foreseeable future then a greater premium should be attached to the price.
Has Brown's reverse Midas touch upset the British Energy takeover deal? 2008
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And had to get their papers validated by a Mexican vet when flying backout!!
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And had to get their papers validated by a Mexican vet when flying backout!!
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Invesco and Prudential - the institutional shareholders understood to have led the backout - are right to say that if energy prices are likely to be high for the foreseeable future then a greater premium should be attached to the price.
Has Brown's reverse Midas touch upset the British Energy takeover deal? 2008
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ACA did piece on this last week where mortgagees whinged about having to pay upward of $20,000 to backout of fixed rate loans, and how the banks are pillars of evil for making them do so.
When Falling Interest Rates Are Bad For Mortgages | Lifehacker Australia 2008
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It is impossible to see possible traffic or pedestrians as you backout.
The O'Reilly Factor O'Reilly, Bill 2000
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Cars and taxis in the train terminal's driveway were backout, trying to get away from the scene of gunfire and madnEvery Commuters and day travelers were still pushing their way oul the building's front doors.
Cat & Mouse Patterson, James 1997
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Honest, if I could make as slick a backout as that, without carryin 'away anybody's footprint, I'd rate myself a headliner among the trouble dodgers.
Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907
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