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Sonia10 Posted 23 years ago
Grammar

Meaning

What's the meaning of backorder? I tried looking it up in the dictionary as well, but couldn't find it. Could someone help?

for eg. Books are on backorder.
  

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Hello Sonia, Firstly, I will tell you my guess of what backorder means. I think that backorder means that the company does not have the book in stock at this time, so they can't ship it to you right away. This is because they do not have enough room to keep all books in stock all the time.

— Trellis

  • Hello Sonia, Firstly, I will tell you my guess of what backorder means.
  • I think that backorder means that the company does not have the book in stock at this time, so they can't ship it to you right away.
  • This is because they do not have enough room to keep all books in stock all the time.
  • When they get enough orders for the out of stock book from customers, they place an order to get it.
  • Later, when they have it in stock, they send it to you.
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Hello Sonia,

Firstly, I will tell you my guess of what backorder means.

I think that backorder means that the company does not have the book in stock at this time, so they can't ship it to you right away. This is because they do not have enough room to keep all books in stock all the time. When they get enough orders for the out of stock book from customers, they
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Trellis, you are wonderful! That is a really helpful trick. That is specially for you. (f)
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Hi Maj,

Thanks for the rose. Emotion: smile

Only a few days ago I learned the define: any-word-here
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