back-load

[ bak-lohd ]

/ ˈbækˌloʊd /

to defer to a later date, as wages, benefits, or costs: The union agreed to back-load pay raises.

Compare front-load.

Words nearby back-load

They stored their things in a shop whose proprietor Amesbury knew, each carrying a back-load up from the river.

The Wilderness Castaways |Dillon Wallace
And the transcontinental lines brought the Hawaiian sugar, also as a back-load against a predominance of westbound tonnage.

Railroads: Rates and Regulations |William Z. Ripley
The Gulf lines brought the Louisiana product, partly as a back-load against exported grain.

Railroads: Rates and Regulations |William Z. Ripley
A soldier came past with a back-load of canteens freshly filled.

My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field |Charles Carleton Coffin

Barth; a back-load of rushes, straw, heath, &c. Irish beart.

English As We Speak It in Ireland |P. W. Joyce