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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back-load

"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

Material was at hand; hemlocks, with a back-load of bark, stood ready to be disburdened.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 by Various

There had been no questions asked at the sampling works, and his back-load of ore had been purchased on the strength of the assay—doubtless with a good, round profit to the buyers.

From Branded by Francis Lynde

He had a heavy back-load of skins, and his wife another big bundle.

From Schwatka's Search by William H. (William Henry) Gilder

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