backcast

  1. Verb.  To identify the actions required in order to reach a proposed future.
  2. Noun.  A cast or throw back.
  3. Noun.  A backward stroke, or a stroke driving one back. .
  4. Noun.  (figuratively) Any discouragement or cause of relapse or failure.
  5. Noun.  (context, UK) Misfortune; reverse; relapse in illness; moral backsliding.
  6. Noun.  (context, UK) Retrospect; hindsight.
  7. Noun.  (context, UK) backwater.
  8. Adjective.  (context, UK) Retrospective.
  9. Adverb.  (context, UK) (context, of time) Long ago; in the past.

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