0 a room in which work or other activities are done out of public view or secretly: --
backroom negotiations
backroom staff
1 done secretly or without attracting attention: --
backroom negotiations/politics
They did a last-minute backroom deal with the union negotiators.
2 used to describe the people in an organization whose work is not seen by the public: --
They are the "backroom boys" who have produced what we are using to-day.
There is room for the backroom boys here.
There are far too many backroom boys in industry.
We do not want a development group consisting of backroom boys, thinking great thoughts incapable of being communicated to the field workers.
So we are not talking about a backroom operation.
It should be an open-handed deal with no backroom stitch ups, and could result in the status quo.
They are the backroom men and women, without whose dedication our sport would be even more impoverished.
The more elaborate aeroplanes become the more backroom staff is needed, not only to fly them, but to get them into the air.
