behind-the-scenes
Use Behind-the-scenes in a sentence
ðəˈsinz adjective
1.
happening or conducted out of view of the general public: The behind-the-scenes preparations made the convention a huge success.
2.
held or kept privately by or among a few key or influential persons: behind-the-scenes negotiations.
3.
occurring backstage: the behind-the-scenes activities of the stage crew.
Origin:
1835–45
1835–45
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2013.
Cite This Source
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2013.
Cite This Source
|
Link To behind-the-scenes
WordNet
| behind-the-scenes | |
adjective | |
| designed and carried out secretly or confidentially; "a sub-rosa report"; "has their under-the-table backing" [syn: sub-rosa] |
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
Cite This Source
Cite This Source
00:10
Behind-the-scenes
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example sentences
The book is packed with hundreds of rarely seen behind-the-scenes photographs which you can preview here.
Clearly there was some behind-the-scenes coordination.
Once the behind-the-scenes machinations became known, academics reacted with outrage.
The picture gets even more complicated when two other forms of behind-the-scenes agency are factored in.
Matching Quote
Nearby Words
Copyright © 2013 Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.
