backroom
/ˈbækˌɹuːm/US/ˈbækˌɹum/
backroom noun: especially, one that is only accessible to a privileged few and can be used as an inconspicuous meeting place, where secrecy, anonymity, and even crooked dealings may occur.
Noun
backroom (plural backrooms)
- Especially, one that is only accessible to a privileged few and can be used as an inconspicuous meeting place, where secrecy, anonymity, and even crooked dealings may occur.
- Near-synonym: smoke-filled room (meeting place of crooked insiders)
- backroom deals
- Synonyms:
- smoke-filled room[insider]]s>
- Antonyms:
- front room, foreroom, anteroom, antechamber
- A storeroom in the rear of the premises.
- We had thought that they were out of the old model, but somebody checked in the backroom and found a case of them.
Examples of backroom in a sentence
- It is known that means of using this end of the former NLR and Broad Street station to take an overspill of traffic from Liverpool Street have been under backroom study for some time.1964 July, “News and Comment: The Broad Street-Richmond line”, in Modern Railways, page 17:
- The vote for a new prime minister will involve plenty of backroom bargaining, while Thailand struggles to revive its faltering economy.2024 August 14, “Thai court dismisses PM for violating constitution”, in bbc.com:
Synonyms of backroom
- smoke-filled room[insider]]s>
Antonyms
Forms of backroom
| plural | backrooms |
|---|---|
| alternative form | back room |
Origin of backroom
Compound of back + room
Words formed from backroom
Phrases with backroom
Words that rhyme with backroom
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- gloom
- home
- presume
- whom
- womb
- resume
- tomb
- abloom
- legume
- loom
- rheum
- boardroom
- combe
- coomb
- entomb
- enwomb
- exhume
- flume
- grume
- kaboom
- Khartoum
- neume
- packing room
- shroom
- sloom
- subsume
- absume
- addoom
- anteroom
- barroom
- bitume
- brume
- chum
- cloom
- cwm
- desume
- fixing room
- foredoom
- fwoom
- glume
- illume
- khoum
- locker room
- raying room
- simoom
- spume
- thoom
- toom
Questions about backroom
- What does backroom mean?
- Backroom means especially, one that is only accessible to a privileged few and can be used as an inconspicuous meeting place, where secrecy, anonymity, and even crooked dealings may occur.
- How do you use backroom in a sentence?
- It is known that means of using this end of the former NLR and Broad Street station to take an overspill of traffic from Liverpool Street have been under backroom study for some time.
- What part of speech is backroom?
- Backroom is a noun.
- How do you pronounce backroom?
- Backroom is pronounced /ˈbækˌɹuːm/ (UK).
- What is the plural of backroom?
- The plural of backroom is backrooms.
Words near backroom in the dictionary
Source and license
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