backfill
material used for refilling an excavation.
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.
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How to use backfill in a sentence
They are also now zeroing in on the city’s plan to pursue a bond to backfill funds that had been reserved for infrastructure projects but were instead used to pay off the Ash lease.
All 101 Ash Legal Battles Didn’t End with Settlement Deal | Lisa Halverstadt | August 9, 2022 | Voice of San DiegoThe leaching behavior of arsenic depends on a lot of different factors, including the binder used in the backfill and the chemical content of the tailings.
There’s a new gold rush in the American West. But is it safe? | Becki Robins / Undark | February 1, 2022 | Popular-ScienceThere are still questions, though, about whether or not arsenic and heavy metals will stay put in the paste backfill material over the long term.
There’s a new gold rush in the American West. But is it safe? | Becki Robins / Undark | February 1, 2022 | Popular-ScienceStates were also given great discretion over how to spend the money, and many have since used it less to assist families than to backfill budget holes, in turn allowing them to maintain tax breaks for the wealthy.
The Cruel Failure of Welfare Reform in the Southwest | by Eli Hager | December 30, 2021 | ProPublicaSoak the roots after planting to eliminate air pockets and backfill with soil as needed.
British Dictionary definitions for backfill
/ (ˈbækˌfɪl) /
(tr) to refill an excavated trench, esp (in archaeology) at the end of an investigation
the soil used to do this
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