"back office" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: en-au-back office.ogg [Australia] Forms: back offices [plural]
Head templates: {{en-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. Wikipedia link: back office Tags: idiomatic Related terms: back of house, barback Coordinate_terms: middle office Translations (Translations): back office [masculine] (French), arrière-guichet [masculine] (French), Backoffice [neuter] (German), zaplecze (Polish)
    Sense id: en-back_office-en-noun-oMaVLV0P Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for back office meaning in English (1.7kB)

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