back burner
nounDefinition of back burner
: the condition of being out of active consideration or development
—usually used in the phrase on the back burner
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Other Words from back burner
back-burner
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Examples of back burner in a Sentence
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The high school football season is about to begin, which means the Son of Swami has to put his real estate endeavors on the back burner. — Mick Mccabe, Detroit Free Press, "Son of Swami predicts 2019 Michigan high school football state champions," 24 Aug. 2019 School’s out, work’s on the back burner, the sun is warm, the water or the desert or the mountains beckon. — Los Angeles Times, "Escapes: Finding the solitude and sense of freedom that vacation affords," 18 July 2019 For now, though, the crypto plans keep simmering on the back burner, displaced by more pressing realities. — Gregory Barber, WIRED, "Inside an All-White Town’s Divisive Experiment With Cryptocurrency," 6 June 2019 Alexandrea Gale has put her acting career on the back burner to hit the reset button, but things get interesting when a local in her family’s hometown recruits her to renovate a local vintage theater. — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, "Hot Stuff: July romances offer 'knotty' self-discovery," 30 July 2019 Unfortunately, that narrative is largely kicked to the back burner after the show’s first episode in favor of a series of even more derivative Star Trek-style episodic conflicts. — Samantha Nelson, The Verge, "Netflix’s Another Life starts as Arrival, then turns into Star Trek," 23 July 2019 Ariana Grande put Indianapolis on the back burner when this year’s Coachella festival hired her as a headlining attraction. — David Lindquist, Indianapolis Star, "Ariana Grande brings one pop banger after another to Bankers Life Fieldhouse," 29 May 2019 The district had planned to buy them in spring 2017 but the expenditure was put on the back burner when U46 CEO Tony Sanders halted all non-discretionary spending. — Rafael Guerrero, Elgin Courier-News, "U46 budget projecting more revenue, higher expenses in 2018-19," 15 June 2018 Those concerns have been powerful enough to see the conversation moved on to the back burner, but what has happened in Kiev this month may force it back onto the table. — Rory Smith, New York Times, "Champions League Final Is a Tight Fit in Kiev. So How About New York?," 21 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'back burner.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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