back office

back office

The section of a business or company that is responsible for managing internal affairs (such as administration, information technology, and so on) and thus generally does not have contact with clients, customers, or the general public. You should ask one of the people in the back office for help with your computer. I spent so many years as part of the bank's back office that now I'm not sure I know the appropriate way to talk to a customer.
See also: back, office
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • thus and thus
  • thus far
  • Speak it!
  • cater
  • cater to
  • cater to (someone or something)
  • hangin
  • hanging in there like a hair in a biscuit
  • hanging on like a hair in a biscuit
  • fresh legs
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Kirklees Conservative leader Clr Robert Light said: "There are many back office functions which don't need to be provided five times across West Yorkshire.
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NATIONAL or regional call centres [...]
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The new BOC ruling by the National Automated Clearing House Association, effective as of March 2007, allows businesses to collect a check written at the checkout counter and convert it to an ACH transaction in the back office and then deposit that transaction electronically.
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