backroom

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.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

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

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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) n → homme 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