Antonyms for back burnerback burn·er

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1. back burnernoun

   reduced priority

   "dozens of cases were put on the back burner"

   Antonyms:
   front burner

How to use back burner in a sentence?

1. Gary Conroy:

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

2. 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.'.

3. Patti Stanger:

   Since entrepreneurs prioritize business they tend to put romance second, which puts potential mates off and leaves love on the back burner.

4. 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.

5. Terry Jones:

   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.

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