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back office

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back office

Refers to systems that do not deal directly with the customer such as inventory management and accounts payable. Contrast with front office. See back office application. See also BackOffice.


back office
a. the administrative and support staff of a financial institution or other business
b. (as modifier): back-office operations


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I looked through the window, and saw her speak to a respectable elderly person behind the counter, who darted an indignant look at me, and at once led my charming stranger into a back office.
Snagsby bends to the lawyer, retires behind the counter, peeps at them through the window-blind, goes softly into the back office, refers to the entries in the book still lying open.
--and sure enough my father walks arter him, like a tame monkey behind a horgan, into a little back office, vere a teller sat among dirty papers, and tin boxes, making believe he was busy.
 
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