0 relating to something that is done secretly or in a way that is not direct or honest:
The change was immediately dismissed as a backdoor tax increase.
But for ethologists there are no clubs and backdoors.
And then gradually, in a rather cunning, backdoor way, we'd get round to how things might be improved.
During these backdoor labour sessions there is frequent reckoning of how much food is needed and how many people might come.
And it is here that the significance of the backdoor is paramount.
Termed "backdoor disinsurance," this practice heavily discriminates against those who most need medical services and reduces the chance that clinicians will be paid for treating them.
We take the view that this is a form of backdoor nationalisation.
No reasonable person could argue that that is backdoor taxation.
This can be used as a backdoor method of savings.
