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What does back-pedal mean?

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  1. Alternative spelling of backpedal
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Will we back-pedal from our standpoint after the recommendations are approved, Nisar wondered.
Georgia introduced assignee liability, only to back-pedal after the state's subprime market started to seize up.
The minister's refusal to back-pedal on his smoking ban earlier this year raised the hackles of publicans nationwide who claimed it damaged their business enormously.
The goal changed the face of the game as the hosts finally began to look like the Unibond title challengers they are and make City back-pedal.
It seems to me there's been an unforeseen outcome and they're trying to back-pedal.
I want us all to understand that several more thousand jobs are at stake if we back-pedal on this report which we are being called to vote upon.

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