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front office
noun
- the executive or administrative office of a company, organization, etc.
Other Words From
- front-office adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of front office1
Idioms and Phrases
The policy-making or executive individuals in an organization, as in I'll have to check with the front office before I can give you a discount . This term was originally underworld slang for police headquarters or the main detective bureau. It soon was extended to other administrative offices and their personnel. [c. 1900]Example Sentences
It makes for a riveting NFL culture war, with coaches, front offices and ownership so accustomed to hoarding control and signal callers being satisfied with selling whatever product they are given.
Keene, who has worked as a cheerleader or in the team’s front office since 2003, did not respond to requests for comment.
The Washington Football Team coach and the two men he hired to run the front office have found they have similar philosophies about building teams, finding players and reaching consensus.
Washington shifted to a coach-centric front office when it hired Rivera last year, giving him control of the football operations.
His vision, he said at the time, was to create a collaborative front office, where he works closely with the head of personnel and other executives on major decisions.
Hitchcock glances at it and says, “Let's send it on up to the front office.”
Everyone—staff, stars, rookies, front office, back office—has to be in top form, at the top of their game.
Nolen proceeded directly from human resources to the front office.
After her pitch, Tara will most likely head “to a cat carrier in the front office.”
Several NFL players, front office staff, and commentators have said that Sam could be a distraction to his team.
Without further interruption, we reached the front office, where we found the clerk and the man in velveteen with the fur cap.
The vision came to him of a pompous old man in prison gray, strutting about the front office with silk socks and a Havana cigar.
Dicky Gossip—a Portuguese clerk commonly so called—rushed forthwith to the front office, and returned with equal rapidity.
To make sure, punch the clock in the front office each time you pass.
The old lawyer's lank figure had hardly disappeared out of the front office when Peckham rang for Caput Magnus.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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