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back-load

American  
[bak-lohd] / ˈbækˌloʊd /

verb (used with object)

  1. to defer to a later date, as wages, benefits, or costs.

    The union agreed to back-load pay raises.


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"We are definitely exceeding 1.2 billion up until the end of next year. So we try to front-load and not back-load the implementation," he said.

From Reuters ● Dec. 2, 2022

Rivals, who back-load salaries to preserve precious cash, charge that Forbes is paying outsize prices to drain the talent pool.

From Time Magazine Archive

He gathered a back-load of yellow, glittering specimens, but they proved worthless.

From The Boys' Life of Mark Twain by Albert Bigelow Paine

At a little distance a young man was grasping by the ears and nose a donkey with a back-load of bracken, and a misplaced ardour for the chase.

From Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Martin Ross

This might have brought on a premature explanation; but presently four Indians appeared, each with a great back-load of ramon.

From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. II. by John L. Stephens

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