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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
backfill .
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Examples
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Excavation units also need to be "backfilled" at the end of the season, even ones we intend to work in again.
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According to Lorenzo, when Miami-Dade sends firefighters to a disaster, the shifts those firefighters would have worked here in South Florida are "backfilled" by other firefighters using overtime.
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Legislature "backfilled" state department budgets with various one-time monies, warning state executive bosses that one-time money would not be coming again and that they should begin to trim spending.
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According to Lorenzo, when Miami-Dade sends firefighters to a disaster, the shifts those firefighters would have worked here in South Florida are "backfilled" by other firefighters using overtime.
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Legislature "backfilled" state department budgets with various one-time monies, warning state executive bosses that one-time money would not be coming again and that they should begin to trim spending.
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Legislature "backfilled" state department budgets with various one-time monies, warning state executive bosses that one-time money would not be coming again and that they should begin to trim spending.
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The district's 2009-10 deficit was $2.3 million, part of which was "backfilled" with
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According to Lorenzo, when Miami-Dade sends firefighters to a disaster, the shifts those firefighters would have worked here in South Florida are "backfilled" by other firefighters using overtime.
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Legislature "backfilled" state department budgets with various one-time monies, warning state executive bosses that one-time money would not be coming again and that they should begin to trim spending.
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According to Lorenzo, when Miami-Dade sends firefighters to a disaster, the shifts those firefighters would have worked here in South Florida are "backfilled" by other firefighters using overtime.
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