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English
Etymology
From back + list.
Noun
backlist (plural backlists)
- (publishing) A list of older books available from a publisher, as opposed to the frontlist of more recent titles.
- Synonyms: back catalog, back catalogue
- Antonym: frontlist
- Hypernym: booklist
- (publishing, attributively, of books being planned) Expected to achieve years of adequate sales while on a backlist, and to be profitable on that basis, even if predicted not to sell in huge numbers when new.
- Antonym: frontlist
- Coordinate term: midlist
The celebrity tell-all has been proposed as a frontlist title, whereas the cookbook has been proposed as a backlist title and the food history book as a midlist title.
Verb
backlist (third-person singular simple present backlists, present participle backlisting, simple past and past participle backlisted)
- (transitive) To hold back a student's application (to a college etc.) based on whether a preferred candidate declines their offer.
I have not heard back from the college yet: I must have been backlisted.
- (transitive, publishing) To place (a book) on a backlist.