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Delinquent vs Backlog - What's the difference?

delinquent | backlog |

As nouns the difference between delinquent and backlog

is that delinquent is one who disobeys or breaks rules or laws while backlog is an accumulation or buildup, especially of unfilled orders or unfinished work.

As an adjective delinquent

is late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation, like a mortgage or loan.

As a verb backlog is

to acquire something as a backlog, or to become a backlog.

delinquent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation, like a mortgage or loan.
    • Fred is delinquent in making his car payment.
    The company made a new effort to collect delinquent payments.
  • Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense

    • Synonyms

    * (late or failing to pay a debt) defaulting

    Derived terms

    * delinquency * juvenile delinquent * moral delinquent

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who disobeys or breaks rules or laws.
  • (obsolete) a term applied to royalists by their opponents in the English Civil War 1642 - 1645. Charles I was known as the chief delinquent.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    backlog

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An accumulation or buildup, especially of unfilled orders or unfinished work
    • He went to work on Saturday to try to work through the backlog of papers on his desk.
  • A reserve source or supply

    • Verb

  • (intransitive) To acquire something as a backlog, or to become a backlog

    • References

    English intransitive verbs English transitive verbs English words suffixed with -log