back room

or back·room

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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.

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Origin of back room

First recorded in 1585–95

Words nearby back room

back plastering, back pressure, back rest, back river, back road, back room, back row, back run, back saw, back scatter, back score
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Words related to backroom

government, campaigning, legislature, electioneering, zoo, polity, jungle, statecraft, civics

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British Dictionary definitions for backroom

back room

noun

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