Such arrangements are becoming commonplace, as businesses support far-flung operations.

The bank should achieve economies of scale by using a central back office to process the work of its far-flung operations.

Large corporations tend to coordinate their operations, however far-flung, based on the company's overall financial health.

This was truly the nerve center, the electronic brain of a far-flung operation.

World empire, in the sense of a far-flung operation far from home, was a European development that changed the world over four centuries.

There the central files were kept, and the far-flung operations were coordinated.

Those ties could benefit Disney across its increasingly far-flung operations.

And despite Buffalo's travails, it is not a case of a local economy gone sour, especially since both have far-flung operations.

To the big sign companies, with their far-flung and large-scale operations, such spectaculars were sidelines.