back-load

[ bak-lohd ]

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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How to use back-load in a sentence

  • Tom Rockets and I used to go out into the woods with bags, and come back loaded with nuts and seeds and roots for my pets.

    Hurricane Hurry | W.H.G. Kingston
  • Loss of blood, however, soon made him desist, and he was transferred to another boat which was sent back loaded with wounded.

  • They were out for six hours with Barwell Dawson, and came back loaded down with birds, and with a small polar bear.

    First at the North Pole | Edward Stratemeyer
  • Didn't they come back loaded down with souvenir postal cards, baskets of fruit, parrots and monkeys?

    With the Battle Fleet | Franklin Matthews
  • That afternoon we got Joe Gee and some rifles and came back loaded for bear.