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Definition: Backroom |
BackroomNoun1. The meeting place of a group of leaders who make their decisions via private negotiations. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Lyrics | To the backroom, to the alley or the trusty woods (Night Moves; performing artist: BOB SEGER; writing credit: Bob Seger) With a backroom I could come to live in (Feelin' On Yo Booty; performing artist: R. Kelly) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Backroom (1995) | |
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Economic History | Philippines | The call center industry has been singled out as part of the growing list of backroom operations growing dramatically in the Philippines. (references) |
Philippines | Information and communications technologies, backroom operations such as call centers, and regional facilities or shared-service centers are likewise leading investment opportunities. (references) | |
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| "Backroom" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.11% of the time. "Backroom" is used about 53 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.11% | 52 | 47,145 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.89% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 53 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "backroom": backroom boy ♦ decisions taken in the backroom. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "backroom"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | agtervertrek, agterkamer. (various references) | |
German | hinterzimmer. (various references) | |
Hungarian | udvari szoba, mellékszoba, hátsó szoba (back room). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kamar rahasia. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ackroombay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | quarto dos fundos. (various references) | |
Spanish | cuadro trasero. (various references) | |
Swedish | forskare som arbetar bakom kulisserna, åt gården. (various references) | |
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Words beginning with "backroom": backrooms. (additional references) | |
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"Backroom" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bachkovo, backrow, buckroo, jackaroo, tackroom. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "backroom" (pronounced ba"kruw'm) |
| 4 | -k r uw' m | cloakroom, darkroom, stockroom, workroom. |
| 3 | -r uw' m | ballroom, barroom, bathroom, bedroom, boardroom, bridegroom, newsroom, playroom, classroom, courtroom, elbowroom, headroom, lunchroom, restroom, schoolroom, storeroom, sunroom, toolroom, washroom. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-k-m-o-o-r" | |
-2 letters: crambo. | |
-3 letters: brock, bromo, brook, broom, carbo, carob, carom, cobra, combo, coomb, croak, crook, karoo, macro. | |
-4 letters: ambo, amok, arco, back, bark, barm, boar, bock, book, boom, boor, bora, broo, carb, cark, coma, comb, cook, cork, corm, crab, cram, kbar, kobo, mack, mako, marc, mark, mock, moor, mora, okra, orca, rack, roam, rock. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-k-m-o-o-r" | |
+1 letter: backrooms. | |
+2 letters: blackamoor. | |
+3 letters: blackamoors. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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