plate의 뜻 – 처리해야 할 사항들

As if finance chiefs didn’t have enough on their plates before the pandemic, surging shipping costs, freight logjams and factory disruptions in China over the past few years have laid bare their need to adapt and step up their involvement in boosting supplychain resilience.
– the wall street journal 2023. 4. 27.

내이버에 나오는 영어사전들에는 ‘접시’나 ‘판때기’ 같은 뜻들만 있지만 이런 해석들로는 위 기사를 이해할 수 없다.

(figuratively) An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities
– plate, wiktionary