back room

or back·room

noun

a room located in the rear, especially one used only by certain people.

a place where powerful or influential persons, especially politicians, meet to plan secretly or from which they exercise control in an indirect manner: The candidate for mayor was chosen in the precincts' back rooms.

Nearby words

back plastering, back pressure, back rest, back river, back road, back room, back row, back run, back saw, back scatter, back score

Origin of back room

First recorded in 1585–95

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Examples from the Web for back room

A Rockefeller Republican-turned-Reaganite, Newt aspired to be a back-room apparatchik rather than a demagogue.
'An Evil-Looking Gnome'|Bryan Curtis|June 27, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Though never convicted, he has always carried a certain, well, unsavory reputation as a crooked, back-room operator.
The Playboy Running Pakistan|Nicholas Schmidle|April 30, 2009|DAILY BEAST
The back-room, which you see is also well lighted, is just the spot for our people to meet.
A Woman Intervenes|Robert Barr
The room I was ushered into was a back-room, a dining-room, looking on to a good garden.
And Even Now|Max Beerbohm

They walked in the same manner up the stairs without speaking, and Mr. Brownlow, preceding them, led the way into a back-room.
Oliver Twist, Vol. III (of 3)|Charles Dickens
The wretched boy was confined in a back-room which had no window or connection with the outside except through another apartment.
Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton|Anonymous
We rode to his house, and he went into the back-room by direction of his daughter while she and I talked in the hall.
Seven Wives and Seven Prisons|L.A. Abbott

British Dictionary definitions for back room

back room

noun

a place where research or planning is done, esp secret research in wartime
(as modifier)back-room boys

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back room

or back·room

noun

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British Dictionary definitions for back room

back room

noun