"backroom" meaning in English

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          "text": "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.",
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  ],
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      "word": "back office"
    },
    {
      "word": "back of house"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
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    {
      "word": "back door"
    },
    {
      "word": "backdoor"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "word": "backroom boy"
    },
    {
      "word": "backroom staff"
    }
  ],
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      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "front room"
        },
        {
          "word": "foreroom"
        },
        {
          "word": "anteroom"
        },
        {
          "word": "antechamber"
        }
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        "English terms with quotations"
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          "text": "Near-synonym: smoke-filled room (meeting place of crooked insiders)"
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          "text": "backroom deals",
          "type": "example"
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          "type": "example"
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          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2024 August 14, “Thai court dismisses PM for violating constitution”, in bbc.com:",
          "text": "The vote for a new prime minister will involve plenty of backroom bargaining, while Thailand struggles to revive its faltering economy.",
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        "A room near the rear of a premises.",
        "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."
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        {
          "word": "room"
        },
        {
          "word": "place"
        }
      ],
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          "room"
        ],
        [
          "rear",
          "rear"
        ],
        [
          "premises",
          "premises"
        ],
        [
          "accessible",
          "accessible"
        ],
        [
          "privileged",
          "privileged"
        ],
        [
          "few",
          "few"
        ],
        [
          "inconspicuous",
          "inconspicuous"
        ],
        [
          "meeting place",
          "meeting place"
        ],
        [
          "secrecy",
          "secrecy"
        ],
        [
          "anonymity",
          "anonymity"
        ],
        [
          "crooked",
          "crooked"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "A room near the rear of a premises.",
        "(often attributive, often figurative) 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."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "smoke-filled room[insider]]s>"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "figuratively",
        "often"
      ]
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      ],
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          "text": "We had thought that they were out of the old model, but somebody checked in the backroom and found a case of them.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A room near the rear of a premises.",
        "A storeroom in the rear of the premises."
      ],
      "hypernyms": [
        {
          "word": "storeroom"
        },
        {
          "word": "room"
        },
        {
          "word": "place"
        }
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "room",
          "room"
        ],
        [
          "rear",
          "rear"
        ],
        [
          "premises",
          "premises"
        ],
        [
          "storeroom",
          "storeroom"
        ]
      ]
    }
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbækˌɹuːm/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbækˌɹʊm/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
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        "Southern-England"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbækˌɹum/",
      "tags": [
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      ]
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    {
      "rhymes": "-uːm"
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    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "lang_code": "ca",
      "sense": "a room near the rear of a premises",
      "word": "darrere"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "a room near the rear of a premises",
      "word": "takahuone"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "sense": "a room near the rear of a premises",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pièce à l'arrière"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "a room near the rear of a premises",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Hinterzimmer"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "sense": "a room near the rear of a premises",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "retrobottega"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "a room near the rear of a premises",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "zaplecze"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "sense": "a room near the rear of a premises",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "fundos"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "a room near the rear of a premises",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "apartado"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "a room near the rear of a premises",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "rebotica"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "sense": "a room near the rear of a premises",
      "word": "arka oda"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "figurative",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "entresijos"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "figurative",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "entretelas"
    }
  ],
  "word": "backroom"
}