| Subject | English | Hausa |
| comp., MS | backup copy | Kwafen tsimi (A duplicate of a program, a disk, or data, made either for archiving purposes or for safeguarding files) |
| comp., MS | backup file | Fayil na tsimi (A duplicate of a program, a disk, or data, made either for archiving purposes or for safeguarding files) |
| comp., MS | backup withholding | riƙewar tanadi (An IRS tax rule in the United States that requires notified payers to withhold a set percentage from payments made to payees who cannot be identified due to missing or incorrect taxpayer identification numbers on tax forms) |