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back office
noun
back office
[
countable
]
the department of a bank or other financial institution that manages or organizes the work of the institution, but that does not deal with customers
—
back-office
adjective
[
only before noun
]
back-office operations
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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