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What (who) is backtrack - definition
backtrack
¦ verb
1. retrace one's steps.
reverse one's previous position or opinion.
2. US pursue; track.
backtrack
also back-track
(backtracks, backtracking, backtracked)
1.
If you backtrack on a statement or decision you have made, you do or say something that shows that you no longer agree with it or support it.
The committee backtracked by scrapping the controversial bonus system...
The finance minister backtracked on his decision.
= back-pedal
VERB: V, V on/from n
• backtracking
He promised there would be no backtracking on policies.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
If you backtrack, you go back along a path or route you have just used.
Leonard jumped in his car and started backtracking...
We had to backtrack to the corner and cross the street.
VERB: V, V prep
3.
If you backtrack in an account or explanation, you talk about things which happened before the ones you were previously talking about.
Can we just backtrack a little bit and look at your primary and secondary education?
VERB: V
BackTrack (magazine)
RAILWAY HISTORY MAGAZINE
Modellers' BackTrack; Backtrack (magazine)
BackTrack is a monthly magazine, published by Pendragon Publishing, concentrating on researched articles and photographic features about British and Irish railway history. It is available through newsagents in the UK and by subscription from the publisher, but does not rely on advertising income and therefore does not publish an ABC circulation figure.
Examples of use of backtrack
1. There are reports that if India decides to backtrack from the project, Pakistan will go ahead.
2. But on Friday Secretary–General Ban Ki–moon was forced to backtrack.
3. A consumer backlash prompted the company to backtrack and scrap the controversial new payment.
4. But Secretary General Ban Ki Moon was forced to backtrack Friday.
5. "We will press it home and we aren‘t going to backtrack.