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back office

back office noun: the IT and infrastructure support services for a company, separate from the public face of the business.

Noun

back office (plural back offices)

  1. (idiomatic) The IT and infrastructure support services for a company, separate from the public face of the business.
    • "We had a clear philosophy from Day One, which was that we wanted to maintain the individualness, the uniqueness of each product, and yet we wanted to realize, in effect, some of the back-office synergies of the merger," Fain explained.1998, Cruise Travel, volume 19, number 6, page 31
    • A preaccounting unit overseeing the smooth connection between accounting and the front office was created within the complex derivative back office. […] What was carefully checked during the consultation period was the way in which what was paid out and received was communicated to the accounting...2011, Vincent Antonin Lépinay, Codes of Finance: Engineering Derivatives in a Global Bank, page 200
    Antonyms:
    front office

back office meaning in Tamil and Indonesian

back office in Tamil

உள் அலுவலகம், பின் அலுவலகம்

back office in Indonesian

Translations
bagian administrasi

Antonyms of back office

Forms of back office

pluralback offices

Questions about back office

What does back office mean?
Back office means the IT and infrastructure support services for a company, separate from the public face of the business.
What is back office in Tamil?
Back office in Tamil is உள் அலுவலகம், பின் அலுவலகம். See Back office meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is back office?
Back office is a noun.
What is the plural of back office?
The plural of back office is back offices.

Words near back office in the dictionary

  1. back of one's mind
  2. back of the book
  3. back of the net
  4. Back of the Wight
  5. back off
  6. back office
  7. back offices
  8. back on to
  9. back one out
  10. back oneself into a corner
  11. back onto

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Adapted from Wiktionary: back office (page history and authors); back office (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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