"front office" meaning in English

See front office in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: front offices [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} front office (plural front offices)
  1. An office which members of the general public can contact or consult when dealing with an organization. Related terms: front of house, front room
    Sense id: en-front_office-en-noun-83ckUTxd Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 26 28 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 55 17 28 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 53 24 23
  2. (often attributive, often figurative) The systems or divisions of an organization that deal with customer or public interactions or revenue generation. Tags: attributive, figuratively, often
    Sense id: en-front_office-en-noun-ZfY1DaEp
  3. The executive or policymaking officers of an organization.
    Sense id: en-front_office-en-noun-7lOYx~-i
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Coordinate_terms (all senses): back office, middle office
Disambiguation of 'all senses': 47 43 9

Inflected forms

{
  "coordinate_terms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "47 43 9",
      "sense": "all senses",
      "word": "back office"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "47 43 9",
      "sense": "all senses",
      "word": "middle office"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "front offices",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "front office (plural front offices)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "46 26 28",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "55 17 28",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "53 24 23",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              69,
              81
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2014, Steffen Jacobsen, Trophy, →ISBN:",
          "text": "She had introduced herself to an elderly, shapeless secretary in the front office, but wasn't convinced that the woman had heard her.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              15,
              27
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2014, Jim Auton, The Secret Betrayal of Britain's Wartime Allies, →ISBN, page 76:",
          "text": "A woman in the front office invited me to wait in the director's office.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              46,
              58
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2015, Monica Helene Thomas, I'll Never Amount to Nothing So You Say, →ISBN:",
          "text": "While Nathan took his time walking toward the front office to get a tardy slip, he got a text message on his cellphone from his mother.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An office which members of the general public can contact or consult when dealing with an organization."
      ],
      "id": "en-front_office-en-noun-83ckUTxd",
      "links": [
        [
          "office",
          "office"
        ],
        [
          "member",
          "member"
        ],
        [
          "general public",
          "general public"
        ],
        [
          "contact",
          "contact"
        ],
        [
          "consult",
          "consult"
        ],
        [
          "deal",
          "deal"
        ],
        [
          "organization",
          "organization"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "word": "front of house"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "word": "front room"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              155,
              167
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2014, Raghurami Reddy Etukuru, Enterprise Risk Analytics for Capital Markets, →ISBN, page 335:",
          "text": "The demand for real-time risk calculations and regulatory capital optimization enables the traditional risk management functions to be integrated into the front office to involve them in the decision-making process.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              85,
              97
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2014, Tanya Bondarouk, Shared Services as a New Organizational Form, →ISBN, page 159:",
          "text": "The primary function of the transactional HR SSC is the performance of the back- and front-office functions and processes through deployment of the operational service delivery capabilities.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              4,
              16
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2015, Andrew Palmer, Smart Money, →ISBN, page 64:",
          "text": "The front office sells and sells; the back office struggles to cope.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              156,
              168
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2015, Driss Kettani, Bernard Moulin, E-Government for Good Governance in Developing Countries, →ISBN:",
          "text": "The eFez Project aimed at automating the back office operations (through the digitization of all the BEC's records into a database) and enabling electronic front office service delivery through a multilingual (i.e., Classical Arabic, Moroccan dialect, Berber and French), multichannel (i.e., web, GSM, self-service kiosk and conventional desk service) and multimodal (i.e., vocal instructions, text messaging, etc.) interface.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The systems or divisions of an organization that deal with customer or public interactions or revenue generation."
      ],
      "id": "en-front_office-en-noun-ZfY1DaEp",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(often attributive, often figurative) The systems or divisions of an organization that deal with customer or public interactions or revenue generation."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "figuratively",
        "often"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              56,
              68
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2014, Oliver North, Bob Hamer, Counterfeit Lies, →ISBN, page 119:",
          "text": "Any good undercover agent ruffled a few feathers in the front office, and Jake more often than not upset the entire henhouse.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              54,
              66
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2015, Andrew Baggarly, Duane Kuiper, A Band of Misfits: Tales of the 2010 San Francisco Giants, →ISBN, page 12:",
          "text": "Sabean insisted he kept Posey at Triple A because the front office wasn't convinced the rookie could excel behind the plate in the big leagues.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The executive or policymaking officers of an organization."
      ],
      "id": "en-front_office-en-noun-7lOYx~-i",
      "links": [
        [
          "executive",
          "executive"
        ],
        [
          "policymaking",
          "policymaking"
        ],
        [
          "officer",
          "officer"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "front office"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "coordinate_terms": [
    {
      "sense": "all senses",
      "word": "back office"
    },
    {
      "sense": "all senses",
      "word": "middle office"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "front offices",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "front office (plural front offices)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "front of house"
    },
    {
      "word": "front room"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              69,
              81
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2014, Steffen Jacobsen, Trophy, →ISBN:",
          "text": "She had introduced herself to an elderly, shapeless secretary in the front office, but wasn't convinced that the woman had heard her.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              15,
              27
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2014, Jim Auton, The Secret Betrayal of Britain's Wartime Allies, →ISBN, page 76:",
          "text": "A woman in the front office invited me to wait in the director's office.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              46,
              58
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2015, Monica Helene Thomas, I'll Never Amount to Nothing So You Say, →ISBN:",
          "text": "While Nathan took his time walking toward the front office to get a tardy slip, he got a text message on his cellphone from his mother.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An office which members of the general public can contact or consult when dealing with an organization."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "office",
          "office"
        ],
        [
          "member",
          "member"
        ],
        [
          "general public",
          "general public"
        ],
        [
          "contact",
          "contact"
        ],
        [
          "consult",
          "consult"
        ],
        [
          "deal",
          "deal"
        ],
        [
          "organization",
          "organization"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              155,
              167
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2014, Raghurami Reddy Etukuru, Enterprise Risk Analytics for Capital Markets, →ISBN, page 335:",
          "text": "The demand for real-time risk calculations and regulatory capital optimization enables the traditional risk management functions to be integrated into the front office to involve them in the decision-making process.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              85,
              97
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2014, Tanya Bondarouk, Shared Services as a New Organizational Form, →ISBN, page 159:",
          "text": "The primary function of the transactional HR SSC is the performance of the back- and front-office functions and processes through deployment of the operational service delivery capabilities.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              4,
              16
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2015, Andrew Palmer, Smart Money, →ISBN, page 64:",
          "text": "The front office sells and sells; the back office struggles to cope.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              156,
              168
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2015, Driss Kettani, Bernard Moulin, E-Government for Good Governance in Developing Countries, →ISBN:",
          "text": "The eFez Project aimed at automating the back office operations (through the digitization of all the BEC's records into a database) and enabling electronic front office service delivery through a multilingual (i.e., Classical Arabic, Moroccan dialect, Berber and French), multichannel (i.e., web, GSM, self-service kiosk and conventional desk service) and multimodal (i.e., vocal instructions, text messaging, etc.) interface.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The systems or divisions of an organization that deal with customer or public interactions or revenue generation."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(often attributive, often figurative) The systems or divisions of an organization that deal with customer or public interactions or revenue generation."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "figuratively",
        "often"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              56,
              68
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2014, Oliver North, Bob Hamer, Counterfeit Lies, →ISBN, page 119:",
          "text": "Any good undercover agent ruffled a few feathers in the front office, and Jake more often than not upset the entire henhouse.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              54,
              66
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2015, Andrew Baggarly, Duane Kuiper, A Band of Misfits: Tales of the 2010 San Francisco Giants, →ISBN, page 12:",
          "text": "Sabean insisted he kept Posey at Triple A because the front office wasn't convinced the rookie could excel behind the plate in the big leagues.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The executive or policymaking officers of an organization."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "executive",
          "executive"
        ],
        [
          "policymaking",
          "policymaking"
        ],
        [
          "officer",
          "officer"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "front office"
}

Download raw JSONL data for front office meaning in English (4.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-24 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-20 using wiktextract (813e02a and ea19a0a). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.