catch up on a backlog

Frequency: 6.78.9 per million words

To do the work that has been accumulating.

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Examples (10)

  • 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.