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back offices

back offices is the plural of back office.

Meaning of back office

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
    Antonyms:
    front office

Questions about back offices

What is back offices the plural of?
Back offices is the plural of back office.

Words near back offices in the dictionary

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

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