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back-burners

back-burners is the third-person singular simple present indicative of back-burner.

Meaning of back-burner

Adjective

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

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

Questions about back-burners

What is back-burners the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Back-burners is the third-person singular simple present indicative of back-burner.

Words near back-burners in the dictionary

  1. back-built
  2. back-burn
  3. back-burner
  4. back-burnered
  5. back-burnering
  6. back-burners
  7. back-burns
  8. back-butt
  9. back-butter
  10. back-buttered
  11. back-buttering

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