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

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Etymology

Origin of back room

First recorded in 1585–95

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

back room

“I think it’s easy to believe that reviews don’t matter,” James says while signing 300 copies in a tiny back room at Powell’s before his talk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

In the back room, where the sorting happens, Ward picks out items that will never make the shelves.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

The family lived in a back room of the establishment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

"It means fewer orders," says one trader over tea in a back room office.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026

But then we’re pushed back toward the bar by those who were in the back room, because there are cops coming in that way, too.

From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King

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