back-order
back-or·der [ ˈbak-ˌȯr-dər]
: a business order yet to be fulfilled because stock is unavailable
[ˈbak-ˌȯr-dər]
back-ordered; back-ordering; back-orders
Recent Examples on the Web
//Boeing was desperate to get the 737 MAX flying again — there were more than 5,000 planes on back order, with dozens coming off the assembly line every month.
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Alec Macgillis, ProPublica, "“I Will Never Let Boeing Forget Her”," 11 Nov. 2019
//Boeing has a back order of 4,000 737 Max aircraft, which cost about $100 million each, and those sales are in jeopardy until the plane is approved to fly again.
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Aimee Picchi, CBS News, "Boeing's CEO vows grounded 737 Max will fly again by end of year," 23 Oct. 2019
//The vendor at a booth selling a steel barricade lock for classrooms said sales are so high that the item is on back order.
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Alexia Fernández Campbell, Vox, "I went to a huge conference on school safety. No one wanted to talk about gun control.," 30 July 2018
//But now, even those local anesthetics — lidocaine, ropivacaine and bupivacaine — are in short supply due to manufacturing problems and back orders, according to doctors and federal regulators.
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Pauline Bartolone, Washington Post, "Safety Violations Compound Pain Of Painkiller Shortages," 16 Apr. 2018
//But now, even those local anesthetics — lidocaine, ropivacaine and bupivacaine — are in short supply due to manufacturing problems and back orders, according to doctors and federal regulators.
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Pauline Bartolone, Washington Post, "Safety Violations Compound Pain Of Painkiller Shortages," 16 Apr. 2018
//But now, even those local anesthetics — lidocaine, ropivacaine and bupivacaine — are in short supply due to manufacturing problems and back orders, according to doctors and federal regulators.
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Pauline Bartolone, Washington Post, "Safety Violations Compound Pain Of Painkiller Shortages," 16 Apr. 2018
//Below is a partial list of vehicles with airbag components still on back order.
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Ron Hurtibise, Sun-Sentinel.com, "Despite danger, airbag parts still on back order for some car models," 18 June 2018
//But now, even those local anesthetics — lidocaine, ropivacaine and bupivacaine — are in short supply due to manufacturing problems and back orders, according to doctors and federal regulators.
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Pauline Bartolone, Washington Post, "Safety Violations Compound Pain Of Painkiller Shortages," 16 Apr. 2018
First Known Use of back-order
Verb
1901, in the meaning defined above
Noun
1887, in the meaning defined above
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