back room

or backroom


noun
  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.

Origin of back room

1
First recorded in 1585–95

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How to use back room in a sentence

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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