back of the book
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.33 in modern English
33
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Less important or less hard-hitting material relegated to the later pages of a print publication or the later stages of a television broadcast.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see back, book.
Example Sentences
- ""Segment 3" established the daily presence of a five-minute back-of-the-book feature on network newscasts. Although previously the TV networks had usually featured soft news at the end of their evening news, on some days the soft-news feature did not make it on the air because of the judged newsworthiness of the hard news."
- "The change in the hard/soft news ratio has taken on several forms. In the print media, the change can be seen clearly by the expansion of "back of the book" sections, for example, about subjects as varied as science and gardening. Television has no formal back of the book, but there are now fewer sections devoted to domestic and international political news."
- "Some magazines use the back-of-the-book merely for story “jumps” (continuations of articles from the feature well). Others fill the back-of-the-book with additional departments and columns."