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backlog
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1680s, "large log placed at the back of a fire," from back (adj.) + log (n.1). Figurative sense of "something stored up for later use" is first attested 1883, but this and the meaning "arrears of unfulfilled orders" (1932) might be from, or suggested by, ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Backlog generally refers to an accumulation over time of work waiting to be done or orders to be fulfilled. Backlog may also refer to: The product backlog , a list of requirements that is maintained for a product developed using the Scrum methodology Backlog ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB clear ▪ The workers merely wish to clear a backlog of clients before the afternoon session begins. ▪ He said the airline was now working to clear the backlog , with the delayed flights expected to depart within 24 hours. ...
Usage examples of backlog.
The sounds were primal and complex, a perfect chaos of unspent, unspoken, undirected emotions, most of which were a backlog that only then found expression.
The backlogged Cuban analysts and cryptologists of B Group were only now putting out translations of messages intercepted weeks earlier.
All domestic scheduled flights have been re-routed to Lanseria and Germiston airports, and we are landing and despatching only international scheduled flights but the backlog has delayed departures by three hours.
Edition: 11 Language: English The Project Gutenberg Etext of Backlog Studies, by Charles D.
You want, first, a large backlog, which does not rest on the andirons.
A whole leisure day before you, a good novel in hand, and the backlog only just beginning to kindle, with uncounted hours of comfort in it, has life anything more delicious?
The birch log holds out very well while it is green, but has not substance enough for a backlog when dry.
The backlog period having passed, we are beginning to have in society people of the cultured manner, as it is called, or polished bearing, in which the polish is the most noticeable thing about the man.
But, in fact, the gentleman who sat before the backlog in his winter-house had other things to think of.
CHAPTER 7 Kirstin Adair sat on her balcony, drinking tea and attending to the backlog of calls that had accumulated during her hour with Nikko.
So another full day passed before she finally turned her attention to the backlog of calls and waiting ghosts.
We got a high rating on the inspection in July and our backlogs were down.
Karen likes 1997 people because they're never boringall these new words they havethe backlogs of gossip, of current events, and of history.
I have a precision mercury thermometer on order from the Essen Instrument Company thanks to my son, but they have a six month backlog in all of their orders, and their priority customers in Essen have first call on any emergency equipment.
The enormous backlog of similar incidents, manfully swallowed or overlooked for any number of logical reasons, swept aside every consideration except to put as much distance between himself and his invidious position, his too reasonable and conscientious guardian and the obnoxious group of people who mistook daily intimacy for license.