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Rollback (price cut)

A commercial price drop where a supermarket temporarily discounts retail products.

First in use: the 1900s
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Rollback (data management)

Reverting a failed database transaction or buggy software release back to its preceding stable state.

First in use: the 1970s

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Which meaning of Rollback is the original, and which one is the duplicate riding on its name? Rollback (price cut) came first (the 1900s). Rollback (data management) arrived in the 1970s. The data below shows which one owns the word now.

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