Back Backed Meaning Agreement Deal Decide Follow Synonym

Meaning: If you back out of something like an agreement or a deal, you decide not to follow through on it.

• back out Our boss had agreed to increase our wages this year, but the economy went bad and he backed out, claiming his profits had fallen too much.
  
  
• back out of sth The government backed out of its pledge to build more schools, saying it needed the money for war weapons instead.