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back·room  (bkrm, -rm)
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.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.backroom - the meeting place of a group of leaders who make their decisions via private negotiations
facility, installation - a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry; "the assembly plant is an enormous facility"
Translations
backroom back-room, back room [ˈbækrʊm] n
(lit)pièce f du fond
(fig) (= people) → experts mpl qui travaillent dans les coulisses (= place) → coulisses fpl

backroom [ˈbækrʊm] back-room modif
(pejorative) [deal, negotiations] → dans les coulisses
[staff, team] Mr Smith's backroom staff → les travailleurs de l'ombre de M. Smith, ceux qui travaillent dans les coulisses pour M. Smith
backroom team → équipe qui travaille dans les coulisses
backroom boy backroom-boy (British) nhomme m de l'ombre
back rub n (= massage) → massage m de dos
back seat n
[car] → siège m arrière
(fig) to take a back seat [person] (voluntarily)rester en retrait, s'effacer; (not voluntarily)être relégué(e) au second plan; [issue] → être relégué(e) au second plan
back-seat driver backseat driver [ˈbæksiːt] n
(= car passenger) he's a back-seat driver → il est toujours à donner des conseils au conducteur
(fig) (= unwanted advisor, manipulator) to be a back-seat driver → tirer les ficelles


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As he sat in the dingy, little backroom of the bank, while Robinson's pen scratched busily drawing up the papers, he was conscious of an odd thrill.
On that afternoon he had found his wife crying in the little backroom down-stairs.
 
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