back burner

1. 1.

   reduced priority

   “dozens of cases were put on the back burner”

   Antonymsfront burner

   Broaderprecedence

Questions about back burner

What does back burner mean?

back burner means "reduced priority".

What is the opposite of back burner?

The recorded antonyms are front burner.

Is back burner a common word?

back burner is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.