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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a back office" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to the part of a company that handles administrative and support tasks, often away from the customer-facing areas.
Example: "The back office is responsible for processing transactions and managing records, allowing the front office to focus on client interactions."
Alternatives: "support staff" or "administrative office".
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Simply put, we are not a back office in India".
In a back office, Sgt. Chris Wade typed Coley's information into Maryland's law enforcement database.
Ms. Anhalt's husband, Lou, is there almost every day, hiding in a back office, doing paperwork.
He has so far stayed largely cloistered in a back office.
Warren's midterm operation is housed in a back office of her Senate reelection headquarters here.
He jimmied his way into a back office by way of a rear staircase, getting past the cheap lock.
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The firm also got a new chief technology officer from GE Capital, John A. McKinley, 41, replacing a back-office veteran.
This does not mean a back-office job.
It has a back-office processing centre in Bangalore, and a call-centre in Mumbai.
And fact-checking was no longer just a back-office affair.
A computer programmer in a back-office function may not need to speak anything other than English.
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