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back order
1noun
- Commerce. an order or part of an order waiting to be filled.
back-order
2[ bak-awr-der ]
verb (used with object)
- to treat as a back order:
We have to back-order your sofa until the new fabric arrives.
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Idioms and Phrases
An item not currently in stock but to be sold or delivered when it becomes available, as in We don't have the shoes in white, but we can make them a back order . The verb back-order means “to obtain such an item,” as in The furniture store is going to back-order the sofa for us .Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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