Thanks to you, the backlog of tedious work has been completed.
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Backlog
//ˈbæk.lɒɡ//
Synonyms for "backlog" (80 found)
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2 entrieshas context
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13 entriesTranslations
63 translations across 18 languages.
Azerbaijani
2 entries- ehtimal noun (a reserve source or supply)
- tədarük noun (a reserve source or supply)
Bulgarian
1 entries- запас noun (a reserve source or supply)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 儲備 /储备 noun (a reserve source or supply)
- 存貨 /存货 noun (a reserve source or supply)
- 積壓 /积压 noun (an accumulation or buildup)
- 積壓 /积压 verb (to acquire something as a backlog, or to become a backlog)
Danish
4 entries- efterslæb noun (an accumulation or buildup)
- fond noun (a reserve source or supply)
- pukkel noun (an accumulation or buildup)
- reserve noun (a reserve source or supply)
Dutch
1 entries- achterstand noun (an accumulation or buildup)
Finnish
4 entries- rästityöt noun (an accumulation or buildup)
- tilauskanta noun (an accumulation or buildup)
- vara noun (a reserve source or supply)
- varata verb (to acquire something as a backlog, or to become a backlog)
French
1 entries- arriéré noun (an accumulation or buildup)
German
4 entries- Arbeitsrückstand noun (an accumulation or buildup)
- Auftragsüberhang noun (an accumulation or buildup)
- Haufen noun (a reserve source or supply)
- Nachholbedarf noun (an accumulation or buildup)
Hungarian
4 entries- elmaradás noun (an accumulation or buildup)
- hátralék noun (an accumulation or buildup)
- lemaradás noun (an accumulation or buildup)
- restancia noun (an accumulation or buildup)
Italian
1 entries- arretrato noun (an accumulation or buildup)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- etterslep noun (an accumulation or buildup)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- etterslep noun (an accumulation or buildup)
Polish
3 entries- zaległości noun (an accumulation or buildup)
- zapas noun (a reserve source or supply)
- zalegać verb (to acquire something as a backlog, or to become a backlog)
Portuguese
2 entries- acúmulo noun (an accumulation or buildup)
- reserva noun (a reserve source or supply)
Russian
4 entries- зава́л noun (an accumulation or buildup)
- задо́лженность noun (an accumulation or buildup)
- запа́с noun (a reserve source or supply)
- невы́полненные зака́зы noun (an accumulation or buildup)
Spanish
4 entries- acumulación noun (an accumulation or buildup)
- acúmulo noun (an accumulation or buildup)
- atrasos noun (an accumulation or buildup)
- cartera de pedidos noun (an accumulation or buildup)
Swedish
1 entries- återstod noun (an accumulation or buildup)
Turkish
4 entries- artbirikim noun (an accumulation or buildup)
- birikme noun (an accumulation or buildup)
- birikmiş iş noun (an accumulation or buildup)
- terakküm noun (an accumulation or buildup)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
If the government is serious about making inroads into the backlog of asylum applications, they should allocate additional funding.
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The backlog of ships trying to pass through the Suez Canal could take about four days to work through, following nearly a week in which the vital waterway was blocked by a massive container ship.
Source: tatoeba (9928450)
I've a lot of backlog of work.
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