back room

American  

Or backroom

noun

• back rooms
  plural

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

2. 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.

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back room British  

noun

1. 1. a place where research or planning is done, esp secret research in wartime

   2. ( as modifier )

      back-room boys

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• back rooms
  plural

Etymology

Origin of back room

First recorded in 1585–95

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

back room

Offensive coordinator Dean Kennedy emphasized a receiver-by-committee mentality — similar to the Bruins’ running back room.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026

Patterson, meanwhile, couldn’t crack a crowded running back room led by Omarion Hampton.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

The family lived in a back room of the establishment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

Hunched over a laptop in the back room, another soldier admits that "victory" in this war looks very different these days.

From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026

Bernice said, walking in from the back room.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older