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Definitions: Backlog |
BacklogNoun1. An accumulation of jobs not done or materials not processed that are yet to be dealt with; "a large backlog of orders". 2. Large log at the back of a hearth fire. 3. Something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose. Verb1. Accumulate and create a backlog. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "backlog" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
Note: Backlog \Back"log`\, noun. [Back, adjective. log.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Business | A reserve that promises continuing work and profit (a vast -- of orders may soon make possible the greatest peacetime industrial activity. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | An increasing accumulation of tasks imperformed or material not processed. . Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: BacklogSynonyms: log (n), reserve (n), stockpile (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Furnace | Fireplace, gas fireplace; coal fire, wood fire; fire-dog, fire-irons; grate, range, kitchener; caboose, camboose; poker, tongs, shovel, ashpan, hob, trivet; andiron, gridiron; ashdrop; frying-pan, stew-pan, backlog. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Backlog |
| Specialty definitions using "backlog": MANAGER, WINTER SPORTS. (references) |
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Business | There are good opportunities for imports, especially for center pivot equipment where there is a backlog of approximately six months. (references) | |
The regional airline market continued to grow in 1999. The regional jet order backlog has increased by almost 50% in Europe, putting additional pressure on the few producers of turboprops still in operation. (references) | ||
This is mostly due to the increasing number of irrigated coffee plantations in the Savanna area. To solve this backlog, the Brazilian Government is conducting a study on customs laws in order to introduce measures that will facilitate imports of irrigation equipment. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Slovenia | During the year, the Government committed more resources, including judges, to reduce the backlog. (references) |
Nigeria | State officials said the certification boards were dealing with a large backlog of cases for all persons, regardless of religious faith. (references) | |
Belgium | In response to complaints about slow processing time and the large backlog of asylum applications, the Government adopted a "last in, first out" policy in processing new applications. (references) | |
Economic History | Saudi Arabia | The office is seeking to streamline its procedures, hire more staff and reduce the backlog. (references) |
Philippines | The Philippines has a four million unit housing backlog and a 300,000 unit annual housing requirement. (references) | |
Croatia | At present the commercial court system faces a heavy case backlog, and settlement of commercial disputes can take a year or more in some cases. (references) | |
Human Rights | Hungary | Consequently a considerable backlog of cases has developed. (references) |
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | The family court handled some cases, but the backlog increased. (references) | |
Jamaica | A night court has had some success in reducing the backlog of cases. (references) | |
Political Economy | BRAZIL | The large backlog of pipeline patents is being processed. (references) |
Bangladesh | A large judicial case backlog existed and lengthy pretrial detention was a problem. (references) | |
PANAMA | There is a large backlog of criminal and civil cases that can take years to be resolved. (references) | |
Political Rights | Bangladesh | Due to excessive backlog in the court system, at the time the elections were held on October 1, 21 of 22 election fraud cases were still pending from the 1996 elections. (references) |
Trade | Indonesia | New regulations issued in July 2000 have helped reduce some of the backlog in new registrations. (references) |
Women | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | This resulted in a huge backlog of appeal cases and effectively reduced the number of mothers and children receiving support payments. (references) |
Worker Rights | Chile | Workers often are reluctant to contest these actions because of the huge backlog in the Labor Tribunals. (references) |
Bolivia | Complaints go to the National Labor Court, which can take a year or more to rule due to a significant backlog of cases. (references) | |
India | Although a system of specialized labor courts adjudicates labor disputes, there are long delays and a backlog of unresolved cases. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Continued control of consumer credit will help to reduce the pressure on prices of durable goods and will also prolong the period during which the backlog demand will be effective. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | We also launched major initiatives to reduce the backlog of defaulted student loans and otherwise to curb fraud, abuse, and waste in education programs. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | I ask your help to end the backlog at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. |
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| "Backlog" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.48% of the time. "Backlog" is used about 193 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.48% | 192 | 22,147 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.52% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 193 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "backlog": backlog demand ♦ backlog of orders ♦ backlog of work ♦ catch up on a backlog of one's work. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
backlog | 10 |
backlog maintenance plant | 2 |
backlog custom due nature order work | 2 |
backlog claim veteran | 2 |
archive backlog | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "backlog"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | punë e pabërë, pagesë e prapambetur (arrearage, arrearages). (various references) | |
Arabic | تراكم الأعمال غير المنجزة, سند (back, bolster, instrument, obligation, policy, prop, repose, script, shore, support, sustenance), الحظبة الخلفية, دعامة (abutment, armature, beam, brace, crutch, hold, leg, pier, pillar, prop, shore, slip, slipway, staff, stanchion, stick, stock, strut, support). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | резерва (bank, limitation, qualification, qualifier, reservation, reserve, stockpile, supply), голям пън, опора (abut, anchor, anchorage, bearer, bulwark, buttress, column, cradle, crutch, dependence, faith, foothold, holder, jamb, lodgement, lodgment, mainstay, palladium, pillar, prop, purchase, rampart, rest, rock, roothold, sinews, staff, stand by, stay, stock, stronghold, support, tower, underpinning), недовършена работа, запас (army reserve, arrearage, fund, hoard, reserve, reservoir, stock, store, supply). (various references) | |
Chinese | 积压. (various references) | |
Czech | resty (arrears), nedodìlávka. (various references) | |
Dutch | orderachterstand. (various references) | |
Farsi | موجودی جنسی که درانبارموجود است , کنده بزرگ پشت اتش بخاری , کارناتمام یاانباشته , جمع شدن (Aggregate, Assemble, Beehive, Congregate, Constringe, Drift, Flock, Gather, Group, Herd, Muster, Retract, Shrink, Snuggle, Twitch), انبارشدن . (various references) | |
French | arriéré (back, backlock, backward). (various references) | |
German | rückstand (arrear of interest, arrearage, arrears, arrears of account, backlock, delay, overdue, remainder, remains, residual, residue, residuum, rest, slime, slippage, tailing), arbeitsrückstand. (various references) | |
Greek | καθυστερούμενα (arrears), απόθεμα (fund, hoard, hold-up, reserve, stock). (various references) | |
Hebrew | "צטברות "עבו"". (various references) | |
Hungarian | restancia (outstanding work), készlet (hoard, kit, outfit, resource, resources, set, stock, suit, suite, supply), hátralék (arrearages, arrears, remainder). (various references) | |
Italian | ordinazioni arretrate, lavoro arretrato, cumulo di lavoro arretrato, arretrati (arrears, back file, back numbers, back volume, back-interest, rent in arrears), accumulo (accumulation, accumulator, accumulator register, deposit, deposition). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | バチカン宮殿 (Bacchus, bacillus, back, back charge, back combing, back issue, back margin, back music, back screen, back-band, backbone, back-drop, backfire, backgammon, background, background music, backhand, backing, backless, back-number, backpack, backpacking, back-propagation, backs, backskin, backslash, backspace, backspin, backstab, backstop, backstretch, backstroke, backswing, backtrack, back-tracking, backup, badge, BADGE system, bag, batch, batch size, bathyscaphe, batter in the hole, buckle, bug, bugging, merchandise obtained by buying out the inventories of failed retailers instead of going through normal wholesale channels, rearview mirror, suplex, Vatican), 売れ残り . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | バックログ , うれの"り. (various references) | |
Korean | 주문"액. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acklogbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | reserva, acúmulo, reserva (backup, booking, discretion, fallback, freehand, fund, hoard, preserve, privacy, proviso, qualification, refuge, reservation, reserve, reservoir, restriction, reticence, salvo, secrecy, static allocation, stealth, stockpile, store, wildlife reserve), pedaço grosso de madeira, acúmulo (accumulation, congestion, crowd, heap, mass, multitude, pile, rush). (various references) | |
Romanian | rezerve (arrearage, limitation, purveyance, ration), restante, comenzi nerezolvate. (various references) | |
Russian | невыполненные заказы, задолженность (arrear, arrearage, arrears, indebtedness). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zaostatak (remnant), zaliha (hoard, provision, reserve, stock, stockpile, store, supply), rezerva (backup, reserve). (various references) | |
Spanish | reserva (backup, booking, portion of the estate to devolve compulsorily upon the heirs, preserve, qualification, refuge, reservation, reserve, salvo, secretiveness, state park, static allocation, store, wildlife reserve), lista de cosas pendientes, leño en el fondo del hogar, atrasos (arrear, arrears, backlogs). (various references) | |
Swedish | orderstock, ogjort arbete (outstanding work). (various references) | |
Turkish | birikmiş işler, birikim (accumulation, back demand, depot, nest egg, saving), yedek kütük, yarım kalmış işler (loose ends), yarım kalmığ işler (loose ends), rezerv (back demand, reserve), ihtiyat (caution, cautiousness, deliberation, discretion, precaution, prudence, reserve, reserve service, spare, substitute, vigilance, wariness). (various references) | |
Ukranian | резерв (reserve, stockpile), велике поліно, заборгованість (arrearage, arrears, score). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | dự trữ phần đơn h ng chưa thực hiện được. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "backlog": backlogged, backlogging, backlogs. (additional references) | |
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"Backlog" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acklom, Baccio, Backo, Bacolod, Bakalof, Bekulo, Boccalon, Buchloh, Bucklow. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "backlog" (pronounced ba"klÄ'g) |
| 3 | -l Ä' g | waterlog. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-g-k-l-o" | |
-2 letters: black, block, cloak. | |
-3 letters: back, balk, bloc, bock, bola, calk, calo, clag, clog, coal, cola, gaol, glob, goal, kola, lack, loca, lock. | |
-4 letters: abo, ago, alb, bag, bal, boa, bog, cab, cob, cog, col, gab, gal, goa, gob, kab, koa, kob, lab, lac, lag, lob, log, oak, oca, oka. | |
-5 letters: ab, ag, al, ba, bo, go, ka, la, lo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-g-k-l-o" | |
+1 letter: backlogs, blockage. | |
+2 letters: blockages. | |
+3 letters: backlogged, becloaking, blockading. | |
+4 letters: backlogging. | |
+5 letters: blacktopping, roadblocking. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 63 6B 6C 6F 67 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- -.-. -.- .-.. --- --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01100011 01101011 01101100 01101111 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a c k l o g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 0063 006B 006C 006F 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36676977788173 |
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