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back-channel

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back channel
n.
A means by which actions, especially in government and diplomacy, are carried out secretly rather than through regular avenues of communication.
back-channel (bkchnl) adj. & v.
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Adj.1.back-channel - via a back channel; "the failure of back-channel negotiations"


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As a result, hawks within the administration since 2003 have succeeded in quashing numerous attempts by senior State Department officials to coax Pyongyang back to the negotiating table through back-channel talks with North Korean representatives to the United Nations.
Dumb and dumber: the Bush administration thinks negotiating with ... by Ho, Soyoung / Washington Monthly
But he said that Franklin was always skeptical about the usefulness of the back-channel meetings.
New spy investigation suppressed at crucial juncture by Curtiss, Richard H. / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
Also: A report in the Sacramento Bee on Sunday had Derek Fisher covertly flirting with the Clippers for a post-Lakers career - alongside Bryant, whose back-channel interest in L.
INJURY ADDED WITH INSULT by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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