"backburner" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2024 January 24, Stefanie Foster, “Metro-land's legacy for today's railway”, in RAIL, number 1001, page 57",
          "text": "There had been plans to extend electrification from Harrow to Rickmansworth. But when the First World War broke out in 1914, this and a new branch to Watford were placed on the backburner, along with further housing development.",
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          "sense": "to relegate to a lower priority",
          "word": "zurückstellen"
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