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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backload.

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Examples

  • Nick Carparelli, an associate commissioner for the Big East, is in charge of the league's scheduling and he "backloads" the league schedule with the schools he thinks will be the better teams each year so they play later in the year with more at stake.

    unknown title 2009

  • A new program funding long-term care frontloads taxes but backloads spending, gradually going broke by design .

    ObamaCare's Reality Deficit 2011

  • Steep impairment charges are seen as a trend among home builders as they struggle to whittle down huge backloads of inventory amid weak sales.

    KB Home Posts Quarterly Loss, 2007

  • Further, it'd be irresponsible to sign ourselves up for a mortgage that backloads the bulk of the financial burden to a time 5 or 10 years down the road when I'll likely be making less than I do now.

    Take The Money And Run: Why L.A.'s Middle Class Is Leaving 2007

  • Some of them carry huge backloads of grass, or papyrus, or cat-tail rushes, as the case may be; others lug in poles of various lengths from where their comrades are cutting them by means of their panga.

    The Land of Footprints Stewart Edward White 1909

  • They seemed to be Boy Trappers, and from their backloads of steel-traps one of them might have been Frank

    The Brown Mouse Herbert Quick 1893

  • My jab is not at a bum contract (you mention Kei Igawa), backloads, holdovers, or buyouts

    Comments for FanGraphs Baseball Boomer 2010

  • Gimmick No. 1 is the way the bill front-loads revenues and backloads spending.

    NYT > Home Page By DOUGLAS HOLTZ-EAKIN 2010

  • It captured Jeep's brand chauvinism perfectly, the kind of reverse snobbery that's born in the backloads and steeped in mud, blood and tradition.

    MISSISSAUGA - Home 2010

  • A Behavioral economist would say that this backloads pain and makes the price less salient as you spread it out.

    Christian Science Monitor | All Stories 2010

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