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back-burner

back-burner adjective: having low urgency; not currently important. Also the alternative form of backburner.

Adjective

back-burner (comparative more back-burner, superlative most back-burner)

  1. (idiomatic) Having low urgency; not currently important.

Also used as

back-burner is also the alternative form of backburner.

Forms of back-burner

Adjective
comparativemore back-burner
superlativemost back-burner
Verb
third-person singular presentback-burners
present participleback-burnering
past participleback-burnered
pastback-burnered

Questions about back-burner

What does back-burner mean?
Back-burner means having low urgency; not currently important.
What part of speech is back-burner?
Back-burner is an adjective.

Words near back-burner in the dictionary

  1. back-build
  2. back-building
  3. back-builds
  4. back-built
  5. back-burn
  6. back-burner
  7. back-burnered
  8. back-burnering
  9. back-burners
  10. back-burns
  11. back-butt

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