back-office
adjective
ˈbak-ˈä-fəs 
-ˈȯ-fəs
: of or relating to the inner workings of a business or institution : internal
back-office operations
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Far too many companies view data as a back-office problem.
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Prashant Kondle, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Software companies designed to reduce the drudgery of back-office tasks don’t tend to become household names.
—Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
Seamless connectivity meant that everything from customer and back-office processing to coding and data analytics could be done almost anywhere on earth.
—Michael B. G. Froman, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2025
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Prashant Kondle, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Software companies designed to reduce the drudgery of back-office tasks don’t tend to become household names.
—Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
Seamless connectivity meant that everything from customer and back-office processing to coding and data analytics could be done almost anywhere on earth.
—Michael B. G. Froman, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for back-office
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“Back-office.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/back-office. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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