reduce a backlog

Frequency: 7.311.4 per million words

To make the amount of accumulated work smaller.

backlogVERB + BACKLOG

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reduce

Examples (10)

  • The company hired extra staff to help reduce the backlog of orders.
  • Our main goal this month is to reduce the backlog of customer support tickets.
  • A new software system was implemented to reduce the backlog of pending applications.
  • The team worked overtime to reduce the backlog before the end of the fiscal year.
  • By streamlining the process, we managed to significantly reduce the backlog of paperwork.
  • The hospital is trying to reduce its backlog of non-urgent surgeries.
  • We must find an efficient way to reduce this backlog or risk losing clients.
  • Management has introduced new policies aimed at reducing the backlog in production.
  • After the system failure, it took weeks to reduce the backlog of unprocessed data.
  • The judicial system is under pressure to reduce the backlog of court cases.