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Princeton's WordNet

  1. fall backverb

    fall backwards and down

  2. lag, dawdle, fall back, fall behindverb

    hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.

  3. fall backverb

    move back and away from

    "The enemy fell back"

  4. fall back, lose, drop off, fall behind, recedeverb

    retreat

  5. fall back, resort, recurverb

    have recourse to

    "The government resorted to rationing meat"

  6. relapse, lapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress, fall backverb

    go back to bad behavior

    "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"

Wiktionary

  1. fall backverb

    To retreat.

Wikipedia

  1. fall back

    Dear Jayne is a R&B/pop trio from Atlanta, Georgia. Their debut album, Voice Message, was originally scheduled to be released in March 2008 but has been cancelled indefinitely. One single scheduled to be on the album, "Rain", broke onto the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, peaking at number 99.

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  1. fall back

    Fall back generally means to retreat or to withdraw. In various contexts, it can also mean relying on something for support or emergency aid, to return to a former behavior out of comfort or safety, or to revert to a previously established status.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of fall back in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of fall back in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of fall back in a Sentence

  1. Nedra Carroll:

    If you have a fallback plan, you will fall back.

  2. Adewale Ogunleye:

    Being a former athlete, I just realized that the industry could do a better job of providing guidance to our high net-worth individuals, especially our athletes, and using our platform to help with financial decisions, i made a ton of money; that didn’t make me an expert in money. So, I went back to school, I educated myself. But, I do feel like our advisors at our firm should have an obligation to teach as they go, teach our athletes to understand what their finances are, and make sure that they have a legacy to fall back on when their playing days are over.

  3. Emmanuel Macron:

    We can not secure zones that fall back into instability because states decide not to take their own responsibility. It's impossible.

  4. William Bauer:

    It's nice to have money to fall back on for the inevitable rainy day.

  5. George Washington Carver:

    I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this earth to give us a breathing spell. As we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which is God's true storehouse and can never be exhausted. We can learn to synthesize material for every human need from things that grow.


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