catch up on a backlog
Frequency: 6.78.9 per million words
To do the work that has been accumulating.
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- I'll be working late tonight to catch up on a backlog of emails.
- After her vacation, she spent the whole week catching up on her backlog of work.
- We need to hire temporary staff to help catch up on the huge backlog of orders.
- How do you plan to catch up on the backlog of assignments that accumulated while you were ill?
- It feels so good to finally catch up on my backlog of reading.
- If we don't catch up on this backlog soon, we'll start losing clients.
- The manager's main priority is to catch up on the backlog of unanswered customer complaints.
- He's been trying to catch up on a backlog of administrative tasks all morning.
- Our team has a meeting tomorrow to strategize how to catch up on the project backlog.
- Last year, the court system struggled to catch up on a massive backlog of cases.