back room
or backroom
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
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How to use back room in a sentence
In a dim backroom of a mud hut in Save, 82-year-old Teresa Nyirabutunda sits propped upright in bed by her daughter, Francine.
After the Genocide, Rwanda’s Widows Aging Alone | Nina Strochlic | August 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt was reminiscent of the old days of backroom politics and half-drunk reporters swaying against their typewriters.
They also ran the second-most important ad of the season, painting Quinn as a creature of a smoky backroom.
I thought it would be hidden, out in the woods, or some kind of backroom deal.
The True Story Behind Dallas Buyers Club: Meet the Real Ron Woodruff | Andrew Romano | November 3, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTI want Missourians to make a choice in this election based on policy, not backroom politics.
Abortion Opponents and Many Democrats Want Todd Akin to Stay in Senate Race | Patricia Murphy | August 21, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
On his way back, he noticed there were two others in the backroom, a couple of men gnawing on pretzels over beers.
Lamb worked his way up into the throng and got a glimpse of the other guy getting stiff on the backroom floor.
He had also meant to do general repair work in the backroom shop.
The Planet Strappers | Raymond Zinke GallunNick cleared the pie wrapper off the small counter and tossed it into a box as he headed for the backroom.
The Sex Life of the Gods | Michael KnerrLook here, Baldy, what was it her father whispered to you—just before she came into the backroom?
Wide Courses | James Brendan Connolly
British Dictionary definitions for back room
a place where research or planning is done, esp secret research in wartime
(as modifier): back-room boys
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