Meaning & use
Backfilling
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Refilling an excavated hole or trench with soil or other material, or, figuratively, retroactively filling in missing information or gaps.
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Workers spent the afternoon backfilling the trench around the new pipeline.
The team is backfilling last quarter's sales data before the audit.
A note on using this word
Beyond construction, 'backfilling' is now common in business and data contexts to describe supplying missing records or resources after the fact.
Words with a similar meaning
refillinginfilling
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Words with an opposite meaning
excavating
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