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say it: BA-klahg
backlog is a noun and verb meaning "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)". It carries 4 recorded senses.
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)
something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose
accumulate and create a backlog
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for backlog come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.