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Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To arrange or plan (a schedule, project, or process, for example) so that a large portion of activity occurs near the end.
  • transitive verb To incur or pay off (expenses, for example) near the end of a fiscal arrangement.

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Examples

  • He had the courage to front-load the pain and back-load the pleasure on the most serious issues.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • He had the courage to front-load the pain and back-load the pleasure on the most serious issues.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • He had the courage to front-load the pain and back-load the pleasure on the most serious issues.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • Instead, he decided to back-load the schedule with divisional games, and his one-time gamble is now a golden ticket.

    The Minnesota Grudge Match Aditi Kinkhabwala 2010

  • Third, they can front-load the benefits and back-load the costs of their policies, because they have been given a free pass by the media elites to run unprecedented peacetime deficits.

    North, Wallis, and Weingast, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • While a domestic consumer might gather a back-load (30 - 40 kg) from dead branches over an area of a hectare or so, it is unlikely that the owner of a tractor and trailer would spend a proportionate amount of time gathering across

    4.1) Market research 1989

  • Material was at hand; hemlocks, with a back-load of bark, stood ready to be disburdened.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various

  • He gathered a back-load of yellow, glittering specimens, but they proved worthless.

    The Boys' Life of Mark Twain Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937 1916

  • Having cut enough for a “back-load, ” the next thing was to make it well fast with the rope, and heaving the bundle upon our backs, and taking the hatchet in hand, to walk off, up hill and down dale, to the handcart.

    Chapter XIX. The Sandwich Islanders-Hide-Curing-Wood-Cutting-Rattle-Snakes-New-Comers 1909

  • We renewed the fire -- and blessed the back-load of mesquite we had packed up earlier in the evening.

    Arizona Nights Stewart Edward White 1909

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