front office

Definitions

1. 1

   An office which members of the general public can contact or consult when dealing with an…

   An office which members of the general public can contact or consult when dealing with an organization.

   • She had introduced herself to an elderly, shapeless secretary in the front office, but wasn't convinced that the woman had heard her.
   • A woman in the front office invited me to wait in the director's office.
   • 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. 2

   The systems or divisions of an organization that deal with customer or public…

   The systems or divisions of an organization that deal with customer or public interactions or revenue generation.

   • 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.
   • 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.
   • The front office sells and sells; the back office struggles to cope.
3. 3

   The executive or policymaking officers of an organization.

   • Any good undercover agent ruffled a few feathers in the front office, and Jake more often than not upset the entire henhouse.
   • 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.

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