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  • 61back office — noun count BUSINESS a department of a bank or other financial institution in which people check the work of other people who work for the institution, for example by checking that all business deals are legal and correct …

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  • 62back office — back .office n 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 adj [only before noun] ▪ back office operations …

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  • 63back-room boys — ˈback room boys [back room boys] noun plural (BrE) people who do important work for a person or an organization but who are not well known themselves • Much of a racing driver s success is …

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  • 64back-stone — Lead Manuf. [back A. 4.] The piece of cast iron at the back of an ore hearth. (Cf. pipe stone 2, work stone, and fore stone.) Ure Dict. Arts 756 …

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  • 65work your magic — work (your/its) magic to achieve a positive result. Can the Austrian men win, or will the Americans work their magic at the Olympics? You have to sit back and let the images in Ozu s films work their magic …

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  • 66work its magic — work (your/its) magic to achieve a positive result. Can the Austrian men win, or will the Americans work their magic at the Olympics? You have to sit back and let the images in Ozu s films work their magic …

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  • 67work magic — work (your/its) magic to achieve a positive result. Can the Austrian men win, or will the Americans work their magic at the Olympics? You have to sit back and let the images in Ozu s films work their magic …

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  • 68back to the salt mines — If someone says they have to go back to the salt mines, they have to return, possibly unwillingly, to work …

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  • 69back´break´ing|ly — back|break|ing «BAK BRAY kihng», adjective. very exhausting or tiring; demanding great effort: »backbreaking work. –back´break´ing|ly, adverb …

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  • 70back|break|ing — «BAK BRAY kihng», adjective. very exhausting or tiring; demanding great effort: »backbreaking work. –back´break´ing|ly, adverb …

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