What is "back-"

Usage examples of "back-".

Sinnall decided that regulation issue would be too skimpy for Harlan's frame in any event and the discrepancies would pass as back-country inefficiencies.

The appointment of a back-province physician for Ferrill instead of Loccan or Cordan?

The men arrived and they welcomed Hrriss with much back-thumping and handshaking, while Ken went so far as to rub cheeks with the young Hrruban.

Ken remembered the two of them standing back-to-back, fighting for their lives against too numerous assailants.

So he was the only student in the class who had no Hallowe'en picture for parents to admire on Back-to-School Night.

The back-shot of Gillings' stem face was sufficient to break op Owen's stasis.

She was all admiration for their economy of movement as they back-winged to settle on the cliff.

Every vessel, even one as old as the Destiny, was double-checked and had triple back-ups on every circuit.

But I'd like to be friends, if you would, and I mean friends like my people mean it: fair dealing, back-to-back in a row with outsiders, but if I think you're wrong I'll say it to your face.

She was sure Sassinak had the same back-and-forth tug faced with someone that many generations removed, an uncertainty about what ‘age’ really meant.

Although Coromell didn't ask questions until she finished, she could tell by his expression when she'd lost him and needed to back-back and explain.

He'd rather have watched a back-to-back rerun of Carin Coldae classics, but felt he should exercise self-discipline.

Bosses said the colonists were some kind of artsy-craftsy back-to-nature types.

All of these little back-of-beyond colonies were literally a shot in the dark, too risky to expend us on.

Near the walls, a dozen or more young and muscular-looking Thelerie sat, holding sharpened bronze weapons that resembled a cross between short jai-alai sticks and back-scratchers.