backburner

See also: back-burner and back burner

English

Etymology

From back +‎ burner.

Noun

backburner (countable and uncountable, plural backburners)

  1. Alternative form of back burner

Verb

backburner (third-person singular simple present backburners, present participle backburnering, simple past and past participle backburnered)

  1. (transitive, informal) To relegate to a lower priority
    • 2013, Lorna Stewart; BBC News, Love letters and kindness may improve mental health‎:
      "What I noticed was that my sadness and loneliness got backburnered," she told the BBC.

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