adjective
- having a large accumulation of work, orders, or tasks that have not yet been completed
Usage: commonly used in business and project management contexts
Examples
- The customer service team is backlogged with hundreds of unresolved complaints.
- Due to the pandemic, the hospital became backlogged with surgical procedures.
- Our manufacturing department is backlogged for the next three months.
- The court system is severely backlogged with pending cases.
- We are backlogged on orders and working overtime to catch up.
- The IT department is backlogged with software update requests.