Definitions for backlog

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backlog back·log

Spelling: [bak-lawg, -log]

IPA: /ˈbækˌlɔg, -ˌlɒg/

Backlog is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 140 anagrams from letters in backlog (abcgklo).

Definitions for backlog

noun

1. a reserve or accumulation, as of stock, work, or business:
2. a large log at the back of a hearth to keep up a fire. Compare forestick.

verb (used with object)

1. to hold in reserve, as for future handling or repair.
2. to enter and acknowledge (an order) for future shipment.

verb (used without object)

1. to accumulate in a backlog:

Origin of backlog

First recorded in 1675-85; back¹ + log¹

Examples for backlog

What about all those promises he made to end the backlog and end homelessness?

Instead, it languished with the rest of their backlog for years.

The next thing she did was to rake back the red embers, and make a hollow place among them, just where the backlog had been.

Most are charged with a misdemeanor and sent on their way to avoid overwhelming the county with a backlog of cases.

The fire had burned out, save the backlog which still glowed.

Memphis is hardly the only city that has started tackling the backlog.

Companies may have some backlog, but they have to start taking action.

When he got it back at last, he eagerly downloaded his backlog of mail.

Another ten thousand without horses, who formed a backlog of reserves.

I felt that there was no other token of decay so impressive as that bed of weeds in the place of the backlog.