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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of backfill.

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Examples

  • Excavation units also need to be "backfilled" at the end of the season, even ones we intend to work in again.

    Interactive Dig Waka' - Session 4 2003

  • According to Lorenzo, when Miami-Dade sends firefighters to a disaster, the shifts those firefighters would have worked here in South Florida are "backfilled" by other firefighters using overtime.

    CBS 4: World News Videos 2010

  • Legislature "backfilled" state department budgets with various one-time monies, warning state executive bosses that one-time money would not be coming again and that they should begin to trim spending.

    deseretnews.com - Top Stories 2010

  • According to Lorenzo, when Miami-Dade sends firefighters to a disaster, the shifts those firefighters would have worked here in South Florida are "backfilled" by other firefighters using overtime.

    CBS 4: World News Videos 2010

  • Legislature "backfilled" state department budgets with various one-time monies, warning state executive bosses that one-time money would not be coming again and that they should begin to trim spending.

    deseretnews.com - Top Stories 2010

  • Legislature "backfilled" state department budgets with various one-time monies, warning state executive bosses that one-time money would not be coming again and that they should begin to trim spending.

    deseretnews.com - Top Stories 2010

  • The district's 2009-10 deficit was $2.3 million, part of which was "backfilled" with

    The Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter Latest Headlines 2010

  • According to Lorenzo, when Miami-Dade sends firefighters to a disaster, the shifts those firefighters would have worked here in South Florida are "backfilled" by other firefighters using overtime.

    CBS 4: World News Videos 2010

  • Legislature "backfilled" state department budgets with various one-time monies, warning state executive bosses that one-time money would not be coming again and that they should begin to trim spending.

    deseretnews.com - Top Stories 2010

  • According to Lorenzo, when Miami-Dade sends firefighters to a disaster, the shifts those firefighters would have worked here in South Florida are "backfilled" by other firefighters using overtime.

    CBS 4: World News Videos 2010

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