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A backorder is an order for goods or services that cannot be filled immediately, so you could use it in the context of when a company needs to order something that is out of stock. For example, "The store was out of the book I wanted, so I had to place a backorder for it."
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backorder
noun
An order that cannot be currently filled or shipped, but is requested nonetheless for when the item becomes available again.
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First printing is sold out; get on the backorder list.
Maternity-size Army combat uniforms in the digitized, sand-patterned camouflage used in Iraq and Afghanistan are on backorder at the base clothing sales store.
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The solid gold Apple Watch Edition, which retails for upwards of £8,000, was particularly hit, with some models being so backordered that they have an expected delivery date of August (since then, the Edition supply problems seem to have been sorted, and gold lovers can pick one up for June delivery).
Within minutes of the pre-orders being made available, delivery times for many models of the watch had lengthened to 4 6 weeks, and by the end of the day, every watch available was backordered by at least that much.
On Amazon.com, the Lumia 920 is labeled "backordered" with a shipping time of one to two weeks.
Wilson said it took him two weeks to carve one fish, and he laughed while noting that backorders had started piling up.
Other books are backordered for at least one to three weeks.
On Thursday morning, print copies of his books were already backordered on online retailer sites, and electronic versions were difficult to find.
Both books are backordered and not available to ship for at least six days.
Within a couple of weeks all backorders will be filled, everybody who got the old one will get the new one automatically, and new orders will be filled promptly.
But get in line: the cosmopolitan plus-size, scoop-neck, black T-shirt is backordered, as are the logo Champagne flutes, wine glasses and tumblers.
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