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.
Origin of back room
First recorded in 1585–95
Words nearby back room
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British Dictionary definitions for backroom
back room
noun
- a place where research or planning is done, esp secret research in wartime
- (as modifier)back-room boys