back office

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back office (plural back offices)

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

   Antonym: front office

   Hypernym: office

   Coordinate term: middle office

   • 1998, Cruise Travel, volume 19, number 6, page 31:

     "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.

   • 2011, Vincent Antonin Lépinay, Codes of Finance: Engineering Derivatives in a Global Bank, page 200:

     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.

• → German: Backoffice
• → Russian: бэк-о́фис (bɛk-ófis)
• → Ukrainian: бек-о́фіс (bek-ófis)