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back-burn·er
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back-burneradjective
Having low urgency; not currently important.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of back-burner in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of back-burner in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of back-burner in a Sentence
Since entrepreneurs prioritize business they tend to put romance second, which puts potential mates off and leaves love on the back burner.
I never thought it would be as controversial as it turned out, although I remember saying when we were writing it that some religious nut case may take potshots at us, at the time, religion seemed to be on the back burner and it felt like kicking a dead donkey. It has come back with a vengeance and we'd think twice about making it now.
I feel like this issue now goes on the back burner for him, but he needs to know, 'no, we aren't going to shut up about this in New Hampshire.'.
We need to wait two years, three years to have a house built because of the lack of craftsmen, we are being put on the back burner.
[ The team ] started realizing that they were smashing projects that they had always put on the back burner.
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