Definition of "back-burner" [back-burner]

• Having low urgency; not currently important. (adjective)

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• "Most scientists are relegating it to the back-burner until some method of testing becomes available. chunkdz: Yes, a hypothesis that is not readily falsifiable is not scientific."
• "Said the preternaturally youthful looking Meyer about raising kids: “A lot of who I was and my crazy imagination … that person was on the back-burner.”"
• "There's some revising to do, but that can happen on the back-burner as focus shifts back to The Wheel of Time."