variants
or back-room
: made or operating in an inconspicuous way : behind-the-scenes
backroom deals
a backroom politician
1
: a room situated in the rear
2
: the meeting place of a directing group that exercises its authority in an inconspicuous and indirect way
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SI.com, 1 July 2018
After five months of backroom horse-trading and all-night arm twisting, Angela Merkel faces one last obstacle to achieving a stable government in her fourth term as German chancellor.
—Griff Witte, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2018
Natasha Degen, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024
As a senior elections coordinator at the West Bloomfield Township clerk’s office, Tony Weatherly fields questions from the counter, the phone, even the temporary workers in the back room.
—John Wisely, Detroit Free Press, 28 Oct. 2024
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Adjective
Pascal Planque, Mike Stowell and new first team coach Adam Sadler complete the new-look Foxes backroom staff for the upcoming season.
—SI.com, 1 July 2018
After five months of backroom horse-trading and all-night arm twisting, Angela Merkel faces one last obstacle to achieving a stable government in her fourth term as German chancellor.
—Griff Witte, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2018
Noun
The opacity and coyness of the white-cube gallery, confining its business activities to the back room, feel like holdovers from an earlier age, when the modernist opposition of art and commerce governed artmaking and marketing both.
—Natasha Degen, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024
As a senior elections coordinator at the West Bloomfield Township clerk’s office, Tony Weatherly fields questions from the counter, the phone, even the temporary workers in the back room.
—John Wisely, Detroit Free Press, 28 Oct. 2024
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“Backroom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/backroom. Accessed 7 Nov. 2024.
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