in back
idiom
: in an area at the back of something
The clerk brought out the item from the storeroom in back
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Police stings routinely discover worse in back rooms — illicit drug trafficking, money laundering and tax evasion run by sophisticated criminal networks.
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Edgar Domenech, Sun Sentinel, 18 June 2025
That study helped pave the way for a landmark gender discrimination win against the Agency in 1994 and, a year later, a separate class action suit in which the CIA agreed to pay more than $1 million in back pay and salary increases to settle charges of gender discrimination.
—Christina Hillsberg, People.com, 16 June 2025
The small storage area in back can be expanded by pushing the passenger seat forward.
—Paul Ridden
june 16, New Atlas, 16 June 2025
In March, the Berkeley nonprofit had warned it could be forced to close the shelters on Wood Street in West Oakland — a cluster of about 80 tiny home cabins and an RV safe parking lot — after claiming the city owed it $1 million in back payments.
—Ethan Varian, Mercury News, 30 May 2025
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Edgar Domenech, Sun Sentinel, 18 June 2025
That study helped pave the way for a landmark gender discrimination win against the Agency in 1994 and, a year later, a separate class action suit in which the CIA agreed to pay more than $1 million in back pay and salary increases to settle charges of gender discrimination.
—Christina Hillsberg, People.com, 16 June 2025
The small storage area in back can be expanded by pushing the passenger seat forward.
—Paul Ridden
june 16, New Atlas, 16 June 2025
In March, the Berkeley nonprofit had warned it could be forced to close the shelters on Wood Street in West Oakland — a cluster of about 80 tiny home cabins and an RV safe parking lot — after claiming the city owed it $1 million in back payments.
—Ethan Varian, Mercury News, 30 May 2025
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“In back.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20back. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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