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fallback

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fall⋅back

  [fawl-bak]
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–noun
1. an act or instance of falling back.
2. something or someone to turn or return to, esp. for help or as an alternative: His teaching experience would be a fallback if the business failed.
–adjective
3. Also, fall-back. of or designating something kept in reserve or as an alternative: The negotiators agreed on a fallback position.
Origin:
1750–60, Americanism; n., adj. use of v. phrase fall back
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fall·back   (fôl'bāk')   
n.  

    1. Something to which one can resort or retreat.

    2. A retreat.

  2. Computer Science A mechanism for carrying forth programmed instructions despite malfunction or failure of the primary device.

  3. Something that falls back: the fallback of a huge explosion.

adj.  Of, relating to, or constituting a resort or place of retreat: a fallback proposal; a fallback position behind our own lines.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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