backlognoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/ˈbæk.lɒɡ/us/ˈbæk.lɑːɡ/a large number of things that you should have done before and must do now:
I've got a huge backlog of work to do.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Masses and large amounts of things
- accumulation
- an embarrassment of riches idiom
- any number of things idiom
- battery
- boatload
- bolus
- bucketload
- clot
- deluge
- fund
- lashing
- panoply
- plethora
- predominance
- preponderance
- profusion
- sheet
- shower
- thousand
- tidal wave
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