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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

After silence had been called and the place cleared, a huge, wry-shouldered devil, placed a back-load of fresh prisoners before the bar. 

From The Sleeping Bard or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell by Borrow, George Henry

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 Stephens, John L.

I had accomplished one back-load, and with empty straps was returning to the cache for another.

From The Forest by White, Stewart Edward

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