What does "back-burnering" mean?

present participle and gerund of back-burner

Back-burnering

Q: What is a synonym for "back-burnering"?

Common synonyms include: dinky, dispensable, immaterial, inappreciable, inconsequential, inconsiderable.

verb

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Verb

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present participle and gerund of back-burner form-of, gerund, participle, present
"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."

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dinky dispensable immaterial inappreciable inconsequential inconsiderable

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"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."

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