in back
idiom
: in an area at the back of something
The clerk brought out the item from the storeroom in back
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During the 2024 fiscal year, more than $202 million in back wages was recovered for hundreds of thousands of workers across the country by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division.
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Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
Police stings routinely discover worse in back rooms — illicit drug trafficking, money laundering and tax evasion run by sophisticated criminal networks.
—Edgar Domenech, Sun Sentinel, 18 June 2025
That study helped pave the way for a landmark gender discrimination win against the Agency in 1994 and, a year later, a separate class action suit in which the CIA agreed to pay more than $1 million in back pay and salary increases to settle charges of gender discrimination.
—Christina Hillsberg, People.com, 16 June 2025
The small storage area in back can be expanded by pushing the passenger seat forward.
—Paul Ridden
june 16, New Atlas, 16 June 2025
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Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
Police stings routinely discover worse in back rooms — illicit drug trafficking, money laundering and tax evasion run by sophisticated criminal networks.
—Edgar Domenech, Sun Sentinel, 18 June 2025
That study helped pave the way for a landmark gender discrimination win against the Agency in 1994 and, a year later, a separate class action suit in which the CIA agreed to pay more than $1 million in back pay and salary increases to settle charges of gender discrimination.
—Christina Hillsberg, People.com, 16 June 2025
The small storage area in back can be expanded by pushing the passenger seat forward.
—Paul Ridden
june 16, New Atlas, 16 June 2025
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“In back.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20back. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.
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