释义 |
back-burnerˈback-ˌburner, back‧bur‧ner /ˈbækˌbɜːnə $ -ˌbɜːrnər/ verb [transitive] informal VERB TABLEback-burner |
Present | I, you, we, they | back-burner | | he, she, it | back-burners | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | back-burnered | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have back-burnered | | he, she, it | has back-burnered | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had back-burnered | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will back-burner | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have back-burnered |
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Present | I | am back-burnering | | he, she, it | is back-burnering | | you, we, they | are back-burnering | Past | I, he, she, it | was back-burnering | | you, we, they | were back-burnering | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been back-burnering | | he, she, it | has been back-burnering | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been back-burnering | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be back-burnering | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been back-burnering |
to delay doing something, because it does not need your attention immediately or because it is not as important as other things that you need to do immediately: Allison back-burnered her prestigious law career when she had a baby. The project has been backburnered. → leave/put something on the back burner at burner(3) |