"back-burner" meaning in English

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Adjective

Audio: en-au-back-burner.ogg [Australia] Forms: more back-burner [comparative], most back-burner [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} back-burner (comparative more back-burner, superlative most back-burner)
  1. (idiomatic) Having low urgency; not currently important. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-back-burner-en-adj-9dHnom6p Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 78 22

Verb

Audio: en-au-back-burner.ogg [Australia] Forms: back-burners [present, singular, third-person], back-burnering [participle, present], back-burnered [participle, past], back-burnered [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} back-burner (third-person singular simple present back-burners, present participle back-burnering, simple past and past participle back-burnered)
  1. Alternative form of backburner Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: backburner
    Sense id: en-back-burner-en-verb-pj8sUxw8

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for back-burner meaning in English (2.4kB)

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