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back order

1. noun An item that is not currently available for sale but can be ordered. No, that dress is sold out, but we can make it a back order for you.
2. verb To order an item that is not currently available for sale. No, that dress is sold out, but we can back order it for you.
See also: back, order
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2015 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved.

back-order something

[for a merchant] to order something that is not in stock and make delivery to the customer when the goods become available. The store didn't have the replacement part for my vacuum cleaner, so the manager back-ordered it for me. The shop had to back-order some of the items on my list.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

back order

An item not currently in stock but to be sold or delivered when it becomes available, as in We don't have the shoes in white, but we can make them a back order. The verb back-order means "to obtain such an item," as in The furniture store is going to back-order the sofa for us.
See also: back, order
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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If the manager offers a discount equal to the customer's disutility from back ordering, d = a, then all customers who cannot immediately fill their orders would be willing to wait, and w(p,d) = 1.
TABLE 1 The Decision Rules for the Heuristics Optimal Price given Heuristic Price Capacity Choice Heuristic Capacity Basic Certainty Certainty Capacity Optimal Capacity given Certainty Price Optimal Solution Price Choice TABLE 2 The Simulation Parameters m [member of] [10.40] k [member of] [1.30, .70] t [member of] [.50, .65] a [member of] [.20, .80] c [member of] [1,4] [alpha] [member of] [.70, .80] Variable Definitions: m = number of potential customers k = cost of capacity t = variable cost multiplier, variable cost = t (capacity cost) a = customer's disutility from back ordering c = shape parameter, customers' Weibull reservation price density [alpha] = scale parameter, customers' Weibull reservation price density.
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