re‧trac‧tion /rɪˈtrækʃ
ən/
noun formal1. [countable] an official statement that something which you said previously is not true
retraction of
The newspaper was forced to publish a retraction of its allegations.2. [uncountable] the act of pulling one part of something back inside the main part
[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲