backlog

noun

Definition of backlognext
as in inventory
a large number of jobs or items that are waiting to be finished or processed We have a huge backlog of orders yet to be filled.

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Recent Examples of backlog The Forest Service also has a substantial backlog of deferred road maintenance, with the agency estimating that cost at more than $9 billion. — Christiana Freitag, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2026 Rademeyer said police should trace recovered guns, clear the ballistics backlog and investigate non-fatal shootings, which can be warnings of more violence. — Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2026 The F-16Vs represent $8 billion, or roughly 25% of the entire backlog, according to Taiwan Security Monitor at George Mason University. — ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026 That could create backlogs and more disruption, leading more people to lose coverage, Coleman said. — Aaron Bolton, NPR, 30 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for backlog
Recent Examples of Synonyms for backlog
  1. inventory
  2. supply
  3. collection
  4. pile
  5. accumulation
  6. hoard
  7. cache
  8. stockpile
Noun
  • Other entries about Moore’s property raised questions the inventory itself could not answer.
    — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 8 Oct. 2026
  • With the onset of the autumn agricultural harvest and winter heating seasons, domestic distillate inventories, including diesel, continue to trend downward.
    — , CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of inventory
Noun
  • By that point, family members of those on board had raised concerns about dwindling food supplies and low morale.
    — Mosheh Gains, NBC news, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Over in the oil markets, concerns over supply disruptions slightly eased, after member states of the International Energy Agency agreed to help address rising fuel prices by prioritizing the release of diesel stocks.
    — Justina Lee, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of supply
Noun
  • Some 37% of Gen Z women kept their collections on view only within their own households, compared with 16% of Gen Z men.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026
  • The series is based upon Helene Tursten’s short story collections An Elderly Lady Is Up To No Good and An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of collection
Noun
  • Another catalyst could come in December, when CHIPS Act funding restrictions ease, allowing Micron to deploy its growing cash pile toward a significant buyback .
    — Alexa LoMonaco,Jeff Nash, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Those are anthology series, however, and one season doesn’t necessarily flow directly from the previous one (the large pile-up of AHS lore aside).
    — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of pile
Noun
  • The mark is not a single mark at all but an accumulation of marks that coheres into a whole by theatrically—even illusionistically—representing itself as a single brushstroke.
    — Barry Schwabsky, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
  • The artist stepped away from performing last year after being diagnosed with normal pressure hydrocephalus, a brain disorder caused by an excessive accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain’s ventricles.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of accumulation
Noun
  • Or AIs could take over the company that trained them and hoard resources.
    — Geoffrey Irving, Time, 3 Oct. 2026
  • The identity of the hoard's owner has been lost to time, Tikkala said, though several theories exist about why the silver was buried.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of hoard
Noun
  • This will add up to 144MB of additional cache to the CPU and will also show up in other gaming-centric CPUs in the lineup, offering that kind of acceleration for more affordable chips.
    — Jon Martindale, PC Magazine, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The state did not seek to dismiss allegations related to Morrissey’s statements to the media or to her agreement to log a cache of bullets under a separate case number, functionally hiding them from the defense.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of cache
Noun
  • Expanding the Navy’s missile stockpile SM-6 occupies a key role in the Navy’s layered approach to air and missile defense.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Just a few months later, in February 2003—a month before the invasion—Secretary of State Colin Powell presented a dramatic case to the United Nations, citing mobile weapons labs and hidden stockpiles of WMDs as justification for war.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of stockpile

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“Backlog.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backlog. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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