backlog has definitions from the fields of finance,business
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[ noun ] an accumulation of jobs not done or materials not processed that are yet to be dealt with (especially unfilled customer orders for products or services)

Used in print

(Grants-in-Aid and Other Financial Assistance...)

Despite the successful rehabilitation of over a half million disabled persons in the first eleven years after 1943 , the existing program was still seen to be inadequate to cope_with the nation 's backlog of an estimated two million disabled .

Related terms

collection

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[ verb ] accumulate and create a backlog

Related terms

accumulate reserve

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[ noun ] large log at the back of a hearth fire

Synonyms

log

Related terms

firewood Yule_log

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[ noun ] (finance,business) something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose

Synonyms

reserve stockpile

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