backburner
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See also: back-burner and back burner
English
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]Pronunciation
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]backburner (countable and uncountable , plural backburners )
- Alternative form of back burner .
- 2024 January 24, Stefanie Foster, "Metro-land's legacy for today's railway", in RAIL, number 1001, page 57:
- There had been plans to extend electrification from Harrow to Rickmansworth. But when the First World War broke out in 1914, this and a new branch to Watford were placed on the backburner, along with further housing development.
Verb
[edit ]backburner (third-person singular simple present backburners , present participle backburnering , simple past and past participle backburnered )
- (transitive , idiomatic , informal ) To relegate to a lower priority.
- 2013, Lorna Stewart, BBC News, Love letters and kindness may improve mental health[1] :
- "What I noticed was that my sadness and loneliness got backburnered," she told the BBC.
Translations
[edit ]to relegate to a lower priority
- German: zurückstellen (de)