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backlog

noun as in uncompleted work; accumulation

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Bastian said that the mail delivery backlogs “likely will slow down delivery of ballots, both to the voters and back to the states” this fall.

He also noted a significant backlog of future devices and said eventually releasing a cheaper treadmill was a high priority.

From Fortune

If a marketing or sales backlog was available, the pandemic months were the time to review it.

That put pressure on banks and attorneys to move faster so that the big backlog didn’t grow even larger, extending what already were long delays.

From Fortune

By the end of July, the agency says that it has cleared the backlog of 110,000 oath ceremonies delayed by its closures, as well as an additional 7,905 oath ceremonies not scheduled before the pandemic.

In most cases, no wants to talk about sexual assault, the rape-kit backlog, or the plight of victims and their families.

The federal bench will be harmed by dozens of vacancies going unfilled, causing a case backlog.

The result is a massive backlog of aircraft that must be repaired.

Pulling engineers from the Super Hornet program then led to a maintenance backlog on that program too, sources said.

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

The breakfast fire had burned out; only the great backlog, hoary with gray ashes, lay slumbering at the back of the fireplace.

The night was sharp with the first touch of autumn, and a huge backlog lay on the irons.

The two doors on opposite sides permitted the horse, dragging the backlog, to enter at one and then to go out at the other.

Now the outside door opens and in comes the old white horse, hauling a great backlog.

You moind the day me and Billy Backlog come and towld yow about us seein' that chap on th' edge of yon wood that night?

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On this page you'll find 23 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to backlog, such as: inventory, stockpile, excess, hoard, quantity, and reservoir.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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