back onto sth
— phrasal verb with back /bæk/ verbDefinition
› If a building backs onto something, its back faces that thing: The house backs onto a narrow alley.General location and orientation
(Definition of back onto sth from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- -orientated suffix
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