Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

back office

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.31 in modern English

Syllables: back- of-fice
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The IT and infrastructure support services for a company, separate from the public face of the business.

Example Sentences

""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."
"A preaccounting unit overseeing the smooth connection between accounting and the front office was created within the complex derivative back office. […] What was carefully checked during the consultation period was the way in which what was paid out and received was communicated to the accounting department."

Inflected Forms

back offices (plural)

Phrases

back of house back room backroom boy backroom staff

Frequently Paired Words

back of house backroom back room backroom boy backroom staff barback middle office

Antonyms

front office

Questions

What does back office mean?: The IT and infrastructure support services for a company, separate from the public face of the business.

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