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📚 Unfinished tasks 📚 To pile up 🔥 A large fire log
to backlog

to backlog

4.6
To let work or tasks build up without being done
  • verb
  • /ˈbækˌlɔɡ/
translation icon : acumular
  • He'd rather backlog with any competitor than ship anything--

Examples

  • He'd rather backlog with any competitor than ship anything--

  • As the holidays approached, more tasks began to backlog in the office, making everyone feel overwhelmed.

  • Due to high demand, the project manager had to backlog several client requests until the team caught up.

Synonyms

to queue up
vsto backlog
  • Specialized
1 3.5

To add items to a list so they play or run later

describes accumulated unfinished items waiting to be completed

Antonyms

to finish
∞ 1.0

To bring something to an end or complete it

to complete
∞ 1.0

To finish something or make it whole

How Much

to inundate
40 6.8
to backlog
4.6
to pile up
83 3.1
to trickle
70 3.4

Surface Forms

backlog infinitive
backlogged past
backlogged past participle
backlogging present participle
backlogs third person singular

Etymology

Backlog as a verb comes from the same image of a big log kept 'at the back' of the fireplace and slowly burning while things waited. So to backlog tasks is to let them pile up and wait to be done.