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

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

back office

Up until then, managers had been reliant on the restaurant’s desktop systems, already overloaded with running all the back office restaurant operations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 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

There will be losers in the short-term, primarily companies with tens of thousands of low-skill engineers and data scientists who supply nothing more than low-cost, back office software services.

From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026

The not-for-profit organisation said the intention was to increase the efficiency of "back office" and management positions.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2025

Papi disappears to the back office with the owner, whose nickname, Wimpy, is also the name of his store.

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez