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backroom

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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.
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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"


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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.
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