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back announce

back announce noun: a brief statement or synopsis identifying a piece of music or story when it completes; outro. Also the alternative form of back-announce.

Noun

back announce (plural back announces)

  1. A brief statement or synopsis identifying a piece of music or story when it completes; outro.
    • A tertiary tone on the theme cart directly fires a sub-source cart loaded with a daily synchronized voice track, running the back announce over the theme.1973, FM radio station operations handbook, page 140
    • Often, there are no front or back announces on the AM either, so if the listener didn't know who did the song, we aren't about to tell them.1986, Michael C. Keith, Joseph M. Krause, The Radio Station, page 243

Also used as

back announce is also the alternative form of back-announce.

Forms of back announce

Noun
pluralback announces
Verb
third-person singular presentback announces
present participleback announcing
past participleback announced
pastback announced

Questions about back announce

What does back announce mean?
Back announce means a brief statement or synopsis identifying a piece of music or story when it completes; outro.
What part of speech is back announce?
Back announce is a noun.
What is the plural of back announce?
The plural of back announce is back announces.

Words near back announce in the dictionary

  1. back and forth
  2. back and forths
  3. back and forward
  4. back anno
  5. back annos
  6. back announce
  7. back announced
  8. back announcement
  9. back announcements
  10. back announces
  11. back announcing

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