back-burnering

A form of back-burner — Having low urgency; not currently important.

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Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of back-burner

    For starters, back-burnering malfeasance, usually in the form of graft, risks repeating the kind of disastrous mistakes that the United States made in Afghanistan.

    2024 August 14, Anna Mulrine Grobe, “US weapons help Ukraine advance. Will concerns about corruption put that at risk?”, in The Christian Science Monitor
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APA

back-burnering. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/back-burnering

MLA

“back-burnering.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/back-burnering. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “back-burnering,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/back-burnering.

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