BACK BURNER meaning: Deferred for attention at later

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back-burner, back burner: Merriam-Webster
back burner: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
back burner: Collins English Dictionary
back burner: Vocabulary.com
back-burner: Wordnik
back burner: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
back-burner, back burner: Wiktionary
back burner: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
back burner: Infoplease Dictionary
back burner: Dictionary.com
Back Burner: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
back burner: Rhymezone
back burner: FreeDictionary.org
back burner: Mnemonic Dictionary
back burner: TheFreeDictionary.com
back burner: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
back burner: Merriam-Webster

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Definitions from Wiktionary (back burner)

▸ noun: (countable) A section of a stove used to keep some pots warm while one focuses on others.
▸ noun: (figurative, uncountable) A state of low urgency; a state of low current importance.

Opposite:

priority, forefront, top of mind, immediate attention

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literal back burner, mental back burner, more...

Phrases:

on the back burner, put something on the back burner, put on the back burner, keep on the back burner, more...

Adjectives:

ovenable, winter, charcoal, copper, roast, hotpressed, grate, slice, urinal, grill, bottled

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