Back Burner

Definition: Back Burner

Back Burner

Noun

1. Reduced priority; "dozens of cases were put on the back burner".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Books

• On the Back Burner (Dish, 6) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Economic History

Australia

Federal and State governments' privatization programs have stalled, with the planned sale of Telstra and power utilities now on the back burner. (references)

Indonesia

US pollution control equipment and technology is very well regarded in Indonesia -- though the economic crisis has sometimes pushed environmental cleanup onto the back burner, and the weak Rupiah makes imported American equipment prohibitively expensive for many Indonesian companies. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "back burner": be on the back burner ♦ on the back burner ♦ put smth. on the back burner. Additional references.

Arabic 

‏أفضلية ثانوية (on the back burner). (various references)

Czech

dát nìco uležet (put smth. on the back burner). (various references)

French

en attente (on the back burner). (various references)

Hebrew 

בע�"יפות � מוכ�" (on the back burner). (various references)

Hungarian

halogat (adjourn, be on the back burner, delay, hold in abeyance, hold over, play for time, postpone, procrastinate, stall, to defer, to procrastinate, to put off, to put over, to stall). (various references)

Pig Latin

ackbay urnerbay.(various references)

Portuguese

segundo plano (background, low relief, on the back burner), para futuras considerações (on the back burner). (various references)

Turkish

ikinci derecede olan, ikinci derecede (by-, circumstantial, non essential, one horse, second rate, secondary, second-degree, side, subsidiary), önemsiz (derisive, derisory, dinky, empty, fiddling, footling, immaterial, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inconspicuous, indifferent, inessential, insignificant, jerkwater, minute, negligible, no-account, non essential, nonessential, not healthy, not worth a fig, null, of no account, of no significance, of no worth, one horse, paltry, paper, peanut, peddling, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, poky, potty, quotidian, scrubby, secondary, slight, small, smalltime, trifling, trivial, tuppeny, unessential, unimportant, unsubstantial, worthless, yeasty). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: buckbean.

-3 letters: bracken, crabber, cranker, runback, unbrace, unbrake, urbaner.

-4 letters: backer, banker, barber, barker, barren, bracer, bucker, buckra, bunker, burker, burner, canker, curare, curber, curran, nabber, racker, ranker, rerack, rubace, rubber, rurban, unbear, uncake, urbane.

-5 letters: acerb, baker, barbe, barer, barre, brace, brake, brank, break, buran, burke, caber, caner, carer, crake, crane, crank, creak, crura, cubeb, cuber, curer, kebab, kebar, knaur, nacre, racer, raker, rance, rebar, recur, reran, rerun, unbar, urare, urban.

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