back office

American  

noun

• back offices
  plural

1. any department or office, as a private office or a department of record keeping, that is not usually seen by outsiders.

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back office British  

noun

1. 1. the administrative and support staff of a financial institution or other business

   2. ( as modifier )

      back-office operations

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• back offices
  plural

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

back office

Stubb said he was working actively with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store in "the so-called back office".

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

Ticket machines had to be updated and back office administration put in place.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

Customers “will not only be adopting software when they join Bill, they will be bringing on a team of expert agents that learn their financial back office and run it,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● May 7, 2026

Ministers also identified £1.5bn of "efficiencies" to be delivered over that period, chiefly from "back office" functions of public bodies.

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026

Then Mr. Hancock, who had been sitting alone over his little hearth fire in the back office, came out.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

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