backlog
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈbæk.lɒɡ/
backlog (plural backlogs)
- A large log to burn at the back of a fire.
- 1830, Joseph Plumb Martin, A Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier, Ch. V:
- While she was preparing my breakfast, I chopped off a backlog and put it on the fire, […]
- 1830, Joseph Plumb Martin, A Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier, Ch. V:
- A reserve source or supply.
- An accumulation or buildup, especially of unfilled orders or unfinished work.
- He went to work on Saturday to try to work through the backlog of papers on his desk.
- (video games) In visual novels, a log containing text previously read.
- French: arriéré (work)
- German: Arbeitsrückstand, Auftragsüberhang, Nachholbedarf, Rückstand, Rückstau, Überhang
- Italian: arretrato
- Russian: (incomplete orders) невыполненный
- Russian: запа́с
backlog (backlogs, present participle backlogging; past backlogged, past participle backlogged)
- (transitive, intransitive) To acquire something as a backlog, or to become a backlog
- Russian: накапливать
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