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back room

or backroom

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.



back room

noun

    1. a place where research or planning is done, esp secret research in wartime
    2. ( as modifier )

      back-room boys

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of back room1

First recorded in 1585–95
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Example Sentences

If you want to be immediately ushered into the back rooms of downtown New York’s pre-eminent art galleries, it helps to be a deep-pocketed collector.

According to the deputies’ report from that evening, Rivera told them she and Gonzalez had been in a back room of his family’s home when they heard someone outside shouting for his older brother, Vidal.

“Insurance Commissioner Lara has been worse than asleep at the switch. He’s been in the back rooms making deals with the insurance companies,” Jamie Court, president of the group, said at Tuesday’s event.

In this back room’s corners, suspended panels further interrupt the perceptual action — at one moment creating what I swear was a passing lozenge-within-a-disc that looked like the CBS eyeball, a well-known corporate trademark, winking.

In some running back rooms, the by-committee approach might result in tension over playing time.

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