back-to-back (redirected from back-to-backs)

back-to-back (bkt-bk)

adj.

Consecutive; successive: back-to-back performances; back-to-back home runs.

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back-to-back

adj (usually postpositive)

1. facing in opposite directions, often with the backs touching

2. (Miscellaneous Technologies / Building) Chiefly Brit (of urban houses) built so that their backs are joined or separated only by a narrow alley

3. Informal consecutive

4. (Business / Commerce) Commerce

a.  denoting a credit arrangement in which a finance house acts as an intermediary to conceal the identity of the seller from the buyer

b.  denoting a loan from one company to another in a different country using a finance house to provide the loan but not the funding

n

(Miscellaneous Technologies / Building) a house or terrace built in back-to-back style

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

back-to-back - one after the other; "back-to-back home runs" consecutive succeeding - coming after or following

Translations

back-to-back [ˈbæktəˈbæk]

A. ADJ back-to-back credit → créditos mpl contiguos
back-to-back houses (Brit) → casas fpl adosadas(por la parte trasera)

B. ADV to sit back-to-back → sentarse or estar sentados espalda con espalda
they showed two episodes back-to-back → echaron dos capítulos seguidos