Synonyms for back burner
back burn·er

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1. back burnernoun

   reduced priority

   "dozens of cases were put on the back burner"

   Antonyms:
   front burner

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1. Yasushi Niitsuma:

   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.

2. Vadim Verdyan:

   If you plan to start spending on something that's been on the back burner while you were stuck at home, that money will need to come from somewhere else in your budget.

3. Gary Conroy:

   [ The team ] started realizing that they were smashing projects that they had always put on the back burner.

4. Erin Canterbury:

   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.'.

5. Kathleen Romig:

   But do I log on regularly to check my account? Absolutely not - and I'm much more interested in Social Security than most people, but that seems deeply normal to me - people are busy and once they've logged on once, they don't bother to do it again. It goes on the back burner.