front office

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word front office. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word front office, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say front office in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word front office you have here. The definition of the word front office will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition offront office, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

English

Noun

front office (plural front offices)

  1. An office which members of the general public can contact or consult when dealing with an organization.
    • 2014, Steffen Jacobsen, Trophy, →ISBN:
      She had introduced herself to an elderly, shapeless secretary in the front office, but wasn't convinced that the woman had heard her.
    • 2014, Jim Auton, The Secret Betrayal of Britain's Wartime Allies, →ISBN, page 76:
      A woman in the front office invited me to wait in the director's office.
    • 2015, Monica Helene Thomas, I'll Never Amount to Nothing So You Say, →ISBN:
      While Nathan took his time walking toward the front office to get a tardy slip, he got a text message on his cellphone from his mother.
  2. The systems or divisions of an organization that deal with customer or public interactions or revenue generation.
    • 2014, Raghurami Reddy Etukuru, Enterprise Risk Analytics for Capital Markets, →ISBN, page 335:
      The demand for real-time risk calculations and regulatory capital optimization enables the traditional risk management functions to be integrated into the front office to involve them in the decision-making process.
    • 2015, Andrew Palmer, Smart Money, →ISBN, page 64:
      The front office sells and sells; the back office struggles to cope.
  3. The executive or policymaking officers of an organization.
    • 2014, Oliver North, Bob Hamer, Counterfeit Lies, →ISBN, page 119:
      Any good undercover agent ruffled a few feathers in the front office, and Jake more often than not upset the entire henhouse.
    • 2015, Andrew Baggarly, Duane Kuiper, A Band of Misfits: Tales of the 2010 San Francisco Giants, →ISBN, page 12:
      Sabean insisted he kept Posey at Triple A because the front office wasn't convinced the rookie could excel behind the plate in the big leagues.

Coordinate terms

Adjective

front office (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to the portion of a business or organization that deals with customers and revenue generation.
    • 2014, Tanya Bondarouk, Shared Services as a New Organizational Form, →ISBN, page 159:
      The primary function of the transactional HR SSC is the performance of the back- and front-office functions and processes through deployment of the operational service delivery capabilities.
    • 2015, Driss Kettani, Bernard Moulin, E-Government for Good Governance in Developing Countries, →ISBN:
      The eFez Project aimed at automating the back office operations (through the digitization of all the BEC's records into a database) and enabling electronic front office service delivery through a multilingual (i.e., Classical Arabic, Moroccan dialect, Berber and French), multichannel (i.e., web, GSM, self-service kiosk and conventional desk service) and multimodal (i.e., vocal instructions, text messaging, etc.) interface.
Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia