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📖What it means
What happens when the first choice is unavailable. A fallback must be VISIBLE: a ringfenced role whose lane is down gets a stated refusal, never a quiet switch to somebody else's budget.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Refusal
A fallback carries on another way; a refusal stops and says so.
Not: Retry
A fallback changes the route; a retry repeats the same one.
🗣️Also called
failoversecond choicebackup path