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back room

–noun
1. a room located in the rear, esp. one used only by certain people.
2. a place where powerful or influential persons, esp. 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.
Also, backroom.


Origin:
1585–95
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back·room   (bāk'rōōm', -rŏŏm')   
n.   or back room
  1. A room located at the rear.

  2. The meeting place used by an inconspicuous controlling group.

adj.  
  1. Of, relating to, or taking place in a backroom: backroom card games.

  2. Marked by the exercise of inconspicuous control and maneuvering: backroom politics.

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