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Back-to-back

Meaning in office & administration, with examples

adjectiveCommon term

In office & administration, back-to-back means: Arranged one immediately after another with no scheduled break between them.

In Turkish: arka arkaya

How it is used

Used for consecutive appointments and calls; back-to-back does not mean that the events overlap.

Example sentences

  1. The director has back-to-back interviews until noon, so allow time for lunch afterwards.

    The interviews leave no scheduled gap between one and the next.

  2. Avoid booking the two visits back-to-back because they are in different buildings.

    Consecutive bookings would leave no time to travel between locations.

Common collocations

  • back-to-back meetings
  • book appointments back-to-back
  • back-to-back calls
  • calendarA record of a person's or team's meetings, appointments and events, usually kept in software that colleagues can see and add meetings to.
  • time slotA fixed period of time in a schedule that is available for, or given to, a particular meeting, call, visit or activity.

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