fallbackadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈfɔːlbak/, U.S.

/ˈfɔlˌbæk/,

/ˈfɑlˌbæk/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: fall v., back adv.

Etymology: < fall v. + back adv., after to fall back at fall v. Phrasal verbs 1.

A. adj.

1. North American. Of a carriage, chaise, etc.: having a back which can be let down. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [adjective] > with specific fittings

bailed1548

crane-necked1699

fallback1760

thoroughbraced1858

limbered1920

1760 Boston Gaz. 21 Apr. 3/3 Smith wants a good handsome Fall back chaise.

1774 S. Deane Let. Sept. in Lett. Delegates to Congr. (1976) I. 18 I went this Day to a Noted Coachmaker..and Asked his prices. A Sulky Thirty four pounds without a Top—a fall back Carriage like mine, fitted for but one Horse, Sixty pounds.

1832 Coll. New Hampsh. Hist. Soc. III. 37 He was the proprietor of a fall back chaise.

1856 ‘J. Phoenix’ Phoenixiana 190 Pike yawned fearfully, his head opening like the top of an old-fashioned fall-back chaise.

1922 Hist. Coll. Danvers (Mass.) Hist. Soc. 10 54 In imagination we can see the country-folk assembled near his home, his horses and fall-back chaise waiting..for the appearance of the Doctor.

2006 R. L. Einhorn Amer. Taxation, Amer. Slavery i. ii. 77 A carriage tax aimed at urban elites: £5 on a coach or chariot,..15 shillings on a fall-back chaise, [etc.].

2. That may be used or resorted to in an emergency, or when other options fail or become unavailable. Cf. sense B. 3b.In early use applied chiefly to financial resources, esp. to a minimum wage paid when work (or piecework) is not available.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [adjective] > types of payment

fallback1895

portal-to-portal1936

incentive1943

straight-time1944

over-award1950

1895 Mid-Surrey Times 12 Jan. The levy will be continued..up to May next, as a fall-back fund in the event of a strike taking place.

1911 Plumbers, Gas & Steam Fitters' Jrnl. Aug. 17/2 An increase has just been secured in the ratings of 6 cents and the employes have been allowed what is termed a fall-back wage of 34 shillings.

1930 Economist 6 Dec. 1057/2 The operatives..laid stress on the absence of any provision for a fall-back wage, and a minimum wage to provide for the contingency of under-employment.

1942 W. Rose Good Neighbours iii. 23 The work lasted through the summer, and provided a fall-back job when weather conditions were unsuitable for hay work.

1959 Times 8 Dec. 13/6 By the time the tug strike was a few days old 5,000 dockers were without work and receiving ‘fall-back’ pay.

1989 C. Clark Amer. Wines of Northwest ii. viii. 153 The Kreutners like Pinot Noir Blanc as a ‘fallback wine’, in case of a bad vintage.

2000 R. F. Spark Sexual Health for Men 256 Intrapenile injections are a fallback option for the 35 percent of men who fail to respond to..Viagra.

2011 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 366 855/1 In arid Australia, grass seeds were a fall-back food, exploited when more easily harvested plants had been locally exhausted.

B. n.

†1. North American. A fallback chaise (see sense A. 1). Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1760 Boston Gaz. 28 Apr. 4/1 2 second-hand chaises, one a fallback, the other a landright.

2. An act or the action of falling back (in various senses of the verb); esp. a decline, a drop, a reduction (typically to or towards a former lower level).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > worse > [noun]

damage1300

declinea1327

ebbc1400

mischange1561

dotage1606

failancea1627

fallback1830

downgrade1857

slide1884

the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > relapse > [noun]

again-falling1340

regressa1522

retrogration1567

regression1583

retrogradationa1609

reincidency1622

recess1641

retrogation1646

setback1669

retrogress1701

retrogression1757

backwarding1765

fallback1830

throwback1856

regressivity1890

1830 Dublin Lit. Gaz. 26 June 410/2 On the announcement of supper..a simultaneous fall back of all the ladies, at once proclaimed whom they considered entitled to take precedence.

1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 26 Feb. 2/1 You will have occasional months of fall-back, but that will in time be made up, and every quarter will show a steady increase.

1899 Monroe (Wisconsin) Weekly Times 13 Apr. It is not impossible that a revulsion and a fall-back into the dumps will disclose..the falsity of the pretense that the republican party runs the greatest prosperity show on earth.

1908 National Prohibitionist (Chicago) 5 Nov. 4/1 We must avoid a fall-back in interest.

1958 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 149 197 If an environmental stress is held constant in intensity, as was done here, a fall-back of the kind observed is to be expected.

1999 R. Faith Eng. Peasantry & Growth Lordship (rev. ed.) i. 5 Far from producing a transferable surplus, agriculture in the settlement period may have been through a period of fall-back, if not outright recession.

2013 Toronto Star (Nexis) 22 May b2 I would not expect people to become more optimistic and jump into the market, but I don't see a further fallback in sales, either.

†a. A place to which one may retreat. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1851 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 12 ii. 402 It is..advisable..to provide a ‘fall-back’, or adjacent stubble field into which the flock may retire at pleasure.

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxi. 162 He would leave the Mary..to serve as a fall-back in case we should lose our vessels.

1863 Magnet (London) 23 Nov. 5/1 Many [sheep] will continue to hanker after the crop, and if provided with a ‘fall-back’ of stubble or otherwise they should every day be compelled to feed fully upon the winter food before they are allowed to browse over the stubble field.

b. Something upon which one may fall back, or to which one may resort; an alternative plan or course of action that may be used in an emergency or when other options have failed or become unavailable; a reserve, a contingency.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > [noun] > something held in reserve

second string1643

presidiary1745

standby1782

fallback1860

back-up1952

1860 Bell's Life in Victoria & Sporting Chron. 28 July Without allowing themselves such a fall-back as handicap events, they will never be able to sell any but their neatest-looking foals and fillies.

1866 Observer 25 Mar. 7/5 Of course, they laid the failure to a barge—they were sometimes convenient fallbacks.

1893 Agric. Jrnl. (Dept. Agric. Cape Colony) 6 Apr. 123/2 I am glad to have your opinion regarding the American aloes, and will therefore use it without hesitation as a ‘fallback’ in dry times.

1926 Melody Maker May 23/3 Shorrocks' Syncopated orchestra is apparently a feature at the Palais Royal, Manchester, and the permanent ‘fall-back’ for most public dances in that town.

1934 D. Thomas Let. 15 Apr. (1987) 119 ‘Lack of experience’ had to come out, of course, it's a wonderful fall-back. But even in detail the so-called criticism was hopeless.

1992 N.Y. Times 9 June a8/2 As a fallback, the United States has proposed that there be a simple call by the Earth Summit for future negotiations on a forest treaty.

2004 Trail May 138/2 If you think you might be over-reaching yourself here, or if the weather's looking unsettled, then I have a fallback for you.

4. Fallback pay (see sense A. 2); a fallback rate of pay.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun] > minimum pay when no work available

fallback1931

1931 Manch. Guardian 8 Aug. 7/6 The warps [would be] given to other weavers to keep their wages above the fall-back.

1969 Daily Tel. 11 Apr. 29/3 The men are paid on the basis of the £17 ‘fall-back’ plus piece-work, which gives them average earnings of about £30 a week.

1999 D. Marsden Theory Employm. Syst. (2003) ii. vii. 188 Rules for sick pay, vacation pay, fall-back and so on are common.

Compounds

fallback position n. (a) Military a place of retreat; (b) an alternative plan or course of action that may be used in an emergency or when other options have failed or become unavailable; = sense B. 3b.

ΚΠ

1945 Republican-Courier (Findlay, Ohio) 19 Mar. 1/6 There are few Nationalist regulars in the south, which has been counted upon as a fallback position if present peace efforts fail.

1959 Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City) 15 Mar. a2/1 An airlift always provides a fallback position, though a poor one, but at present we have no difficulty in using normal transportation in order to maintain the stocks.

1982 R. Sheppard & M. Valpy National Deal xiii. 265 Ottawa has a last ditch fallback position—a national referendum to legitimize the charter of rights.

1998 E. J. Drea In Service of Emperor (2003) iv. 47 After MacArthur's exit from the islands, Australia served as his fallback position and base for an eventual advance against the Japanese.

2015 Times (Nexis) 9 Nov. Mr Cameron's preference is to hold the referendum in June if the summit goes well, with the autumn a less-favoured fallback position.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	fallback
释义	fallbackadj.n. Brit. /ˈfɔːlbak/, U.S. /ˈfɔlˌbæk/, /ˈfɑlˌbæk/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: fall v., back adv. Etymology: < fall v. + back adv., after to fall back at fall v. Phrasal verbs 1. A. adj. 1. North American. Of a carriage, chaise, etc.: having a back which can be let down. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [adjective] > with specific fittings bailed1548 crane-necked1699 fallback1760 thoroughbraced1858 limbered1920 1760 Boston Gaz. 21 Apr. 3/3 Smith wants a good handsome Fall back chaise. 1774 S. Deane Let. Sept. in Lett. Delegates to Congr. (1976) I. 18 I went this Day to a Noted Coachmaker..and Asked his prices. A Sulky Thirty four pounds without a Top—a fall back Carriage like mine, fitted for but one Horse, Sixty pounds. 1832 Coll. New Hampsh. Hist. Soc. III. 37 He was the proprietor of a fall back chaise. 1856 ‘J. Phoenix’ Phoenixiana 190 Pike yawned fearfully, his head opening like the top of an old-fashioned fall-back chaise. 1922 Hist. Coll. Danvers (Mass.) Hist. Soc. 10 54 In imagination we can see the country-folk assembled near his home, his horses and fall-back chaise waiting..for the appearance of the Doctor. 2006 R. L. Einhorn Amer. Taxation, Amer. Slavery i. ii. 77 A carriage tax aimed at urban elites: £5 on a coach or chariot,..15 shillings on a fall-back chaise, [etc.]. 2. That may be used or resorted to in an emergency, or when other options fail or become unavailable. Cf. sense B. 3b.In early use applied chiefly to financial resources, esp. to a minimum wage paid when work (or piecework) is not available. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [adjective] > types of payment fallback1895 portal-to-portal1936 incentive1943 straight-time1944 over-award1950 1895 Mid-Surrey Times 12 Jan. The levy will be continued..up to May next, as a fall-back fund in the event of a strike taking place. 1911 Plumbers, Gas & Steam Fitters' Jrnl. Aug. 17/2 An increase has just been secured in the ratings of 6 cents and the employes have been allowed what is termed a fall-back wage of 34 shillings. 1930 Economist 6 Dec. 1057/2 The operatives..laid stress on the absence of any provision for a fall-back wage, and a minimum wage to provide for the contingency of under-employment. 1942 W. Rose Good Neighbours iii. 23 The work lasted through the summer, and provided a fall-back job when weather conditions were unsuitable for hay work. 1959 Times 8 Dec. 13/6 By the time the tug strike was a few days old 5,000 dockers were without work and receiving ‘fall-back’ pay. 1989 C. Clark Amer. Wines of Northwest ii. viii. 153 The Kreutners like Pinot Noir Blanc as a ‘fallback wine’, in case of a bad vintage. 2000 R. F. Spark Sexual Health for Men 256 Intrapenile injections are a fallback option for the 35 percent of men who fail to respond to..Viagra. 2011 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 366 855/1 In arid Australia, grass seeds were a fall-back food, exploited when more easily harvested plants had been locally exhausted. B. n. †1. North American. A fallback chaise (see sense A. 1). Obsolete. ΚΠ 1760 Boston Gaz. 28 Apr. 4/1 2 second-hand chaises, one a fallback, the other a landright. 2. An act or the action of falling back (in various senses of the verb); esp. a decline, a drop, a reduction (typically to or towards a former lower level). ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > worse > [noun] damage1300 declinea1327 ebbc1400 mischange1561 dotage1606 failancea1627 fallback1830 downgrade1857 slide1884 the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > relapse > [noun] again-falling1340 regressa1522 retrogration1567 regression1583 retrogradationa1609 reincidency1622 recess1641 retrogation1646 setback1669 retrogress1701 retrogression1757 backwarding1765 fallback1830 throwback1856 regressivity1890 1830 Dublin Lit. Gaz. 26 June 410/2 On the announcement of supper..a simultaneous fall back of all the ladies, at once proclaimed whom they considered entitled to take precedence. 1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 26 Feb. 2/1 You will have occasional months of fall-back, but that will in time be made up, and every quarter will show a steady increase. 1899 Monroe (Wisconsin) Weekly Times 13 Apr. It is not impossible that a revulsion and a fall-back into the dumps will disclose..the falsity of the pretense that the republican party runs the greatest prosperity show on earth. 1908 National Prohibitionist (Chicago) 5 Nov. 4/1 We must avoid a fall-back in interest. 1958 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 149 197 If an environmental stress is held constant in intensity, as was done here, a fall-back of the kind observed is to be expected. 1999 R. Faith Eng. Peasantry & Growth Lordship (rev. ed.) i. 5 Far from producing a transferable surplus, agriculture in the settlement period may have been through a period of fall-back, if not outright recession. 2013 Toronto Star (Nexis) 22 May b2 I would not expect people to become more optimistic and jump into the market, but I don't see a further fallback in sales, either. 3. †a. A place to which one may retreat. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1851 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 12 ii. 402 It is..advisable..to provide a ‘fall-back’, or adjacent stubble field into which the flock may retire at pleasure. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxi. 162 He would leave the Mary..to serve as a fall-back in case we should lose our vessels. 1863 Magnet (London) 23 Nov. 5/1 Many [sheep] will continue to hanker after the crop, and if provided with a ‘fall-back’ of stubble or otherwise they should every day be compelled to feed fully upon the winter food before they are allowed to browse over the stubble field. b. Something upon which one may fall back, or to which one may resort; an alternative plan or course of action that may be used in an emergency or when other options have failed or become unavailable; a reserve, a contingency. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > [noun] > something held in reserve second string1643 presidiary1745 standby1782 fallback1860 back-up1952 1860 Bell's Life in Victoria & Sporting Chron. 28 July Without allowing themselves such a fall-back as handicap events, they will never be able to sell any but their neatest-looking foals and fillies. 1866 Observer 25 Mar. 7/5 Of course, they laid the failure to a barge—they were sometimes convenient fallbacks. 1893 Agric. Jrnl. (Dept. Agric. Cape Colony) 6 Apr. 123/2 I am glad to have your opinion regarding the American aloes, and will therefore use it without hesitation as a ‘fallback’ in dry times. 1926 Melody Maker May 23/3 Shorrocks' Syncopated orchestra is apparently a feature at the Palais Royal, Manchester, and the permanent ‘fall-back’ for most public dances in that town. 1934 D. Thomas Let. 15 Apr. (1987) 119 ‘Lack of experience’ had to come out, of course, it's a wonderful fall-back. But even in detail the so-called criticism was hopeless. 1992 N.Y. Times 9 June a8/2 As a fallback, the United States has proposed that there be a simple call by the Earth Summit for future negotiations on a forest treaty. 2004 Trail May 138/2 If you think you might be over-reaching yourself here, or if the weather's looking unsettled, then I have a fallback for you. 4. Fallback pay (see sense A. 2); a fallback rate of pay. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun] > minimum pay when no work available fallback1931 1931 Manch. Guardian 8 Aug. 7/6 The warps [would be] given to other weavers to keep their wages above the fall-back. 1969 Daily Tel. 11 Apr. 29/3 The men are paid on the basis of the £17 ‘fall-back’ plus piece-work, which gives them average earnings of about £30 a week. 1999 D. Marsden Theory Employm. Syst. (2003) ii. vii. 188 Rules for sick pay, vacation pay, fall-back and so on are common. Compounds fallback position n. (a) Military a place of retreat; (b) an alternative plan or course of action that may be used in an emergency or when other options have failed or become unavailable; = sense B. 3b. ΚΠ 1945 Republican-Courier (Findlay, Ohio) 19 Mar. 1/6 There are few Nationalist regulars in the south, which has been counted upon as a fallback position if present peace efforts fail. 1959 Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City) 15 Mar. a2/1 An airlift always provides a fallback position, though a poor one, but at present we have no difficulty in using normal transportation in order to maintain the stocks. 1982 R. Sheppard & M. Valpy National Deal xiii. 265 Ottawa has a last ditch fallback position—a national referendum to legitimize the charter of rights. 1998 E. J. Drea In Service of Emperor (2003) iv. 47 After MacArthur's exit from the islands, Australia served as his fallback position and base for an eventual advance against the Japanese. 2015 Times (Nexis) 9 Nov. Mr Cameron's preference is to hold the referendum in June if the summit goes well, with the autumn a less-favoured fallback position. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1760
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