Sekirov Dictionary

back burner

noun 2
back-burner adjective 1
forms 3

noun2

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A section of a stove used to keep some pots warm while one focuses on others.
- Also, avoid reaching across a lit burner in the front of the stove to stir a pot on a back burner. Turn the front burner off while you tend to food on a back burner. — 2008
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(figurative) A state of low urgency; a state of low current importance.
- We'll put next year's Christmas party on the back burner until we deal with the current financial crisis.

back-burner adjective1

Having low urgency; not currently important.

forms

back burners · more back-burner · most back-burner

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