roll back

Idioms and Phrases

Decrease, cut back, or reduce, especially prices, as in Unless they roll back oil prices, this summer's tourist traffic will be half of last year's . [c. 1940]

Example Sentences

The Trump administration could also roll back federal regulations that bar healthcare providers from denying care to transgender patients if the same kind of care is provided to others.

From Los Angeles Times

To carry those gains forward under the Trump administration, Stitzlein said Reproductive Freedoms for All plan to hold the president-elect and congressional Republicans accountable to their promises to reject a national abortion ban or roll back access to contraception and IVF.

From Salon

“Price’s recall should be viewed as part of a broader conservative strategy in California and across the nation to roll back criminal justice reforms aimed at interrupting the cycle of mass incarceration of Black and Brown people,” the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, which opposed the recall, said Friday.

From Los Angeles Times

Trump has the plans and the power to roll back some environmental gains.

From Los Angeles Times

Trump also plans to roll back Biden’s efforts to encourage the adoption of electric vehicles and repeal federal subsidies for solar, wind and other renewable energy projects — important parts of California’s drive to wean itself from fossil fuels.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• abate
• curtail
• decrease
• dilute
• diminish
• dwindle
• ease
• erode
• impair
• lighten
• minimize
• mitigate
• narrow
• shrink
• slacken
• taper off
• weaken