backlog

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: backlog

1	n v	an accumulation of jobs not done or materials not processed that are yet to be dealt with (especially unfilled customer orders for products or services) accumulate and create a backlog
2	n	the large log at the back of a hearth fire

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: backlog

Type of:: accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection
several things grouped together or considered as a whole

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a supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies); fuel level
the amount of fuel remaining; reserve account, reserve fund
funds taken out of earnings to provide for anticipated future payments; blood bank
a place for storing whole blood or blood plasma; eye bank
a place for storing and preserving corneas that are obtained from human corpses immediately after death; used for corneal transplantation to patients with corneal defects; food bank
a place where food is contributed and made available to those in need; soil bank
land retired from crop cultivation and planted with soil-building crops; government subsidies are paid to farmers for their retired land; hidden reserve
reserves that do not show up on the balance sheet (as by understating values); pool
any communal combination of funds; allowance, allowance account, valuation account, valuation reserve
a reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order to provide for changes in the value of a company's assets

Type of:: accumulation
(finance) profits that are not paid out as dividends but are added to the capital base of the corporation

Type of:: accumulate, amass, conglomerate, cumulate, gather, pile up
collect or gather

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