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backfill
[ bak-fil ]
noun
- material used for refilling an excavation.
verb (used with object)
- to refill (an excavation).
- to make up for a loss or shortfall of supplies or funds:
It is illegal to backfill the state budget with federal emergency funds.
- to fill (a recently vacated position), often with an internal candidate or temp.
backfill
/ 藞产忙办藢蹿瑟濒 /
verb
- tr to refill an excavated trench, esp (in archaeology) at the end of an investigation
noun
- the soil used to do this
Example Sentences
"The earth that's been used to backfill the grave looks slightly different to that in the adults' graves," explained Dr Marion Shiner, an archaeologist from Cardiff University.
鈥淔acility staffing documentation continues to indicate that deployed staff are used to backfill youth supervision staffing, an indication that the department continues to rely on a solution that was intended to be a short-term solution as far back as 2022.鈥
I do think that we knew that we had a lot of viable options to backfill.鈥
鈥淐alifornia does not have sufficient resources to backfill the gaps in programs that California residents rely upon that would be created by the withdrawal or reduction of federal funds.鈥
He also said he informed the mayor and moved to backfill their positions so that that the department鈥檚 recruitment efforts aren鈥檛 interrupted.
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