transcription, транскрипция: [ bækdɔ:(r) ]
also back door
1.
You can use backdoor to describe an action or process if you disapprove of it because you think it has been done in a secret, indirect, or dishonest way.
He did the backdoor deals that allowed the government to get its budget through Parliament on time...
He brushed aside talk of greedy MPs voting themselves a backdoor pay rise.
= underhand
ADJ : ADJ n [ disapproval ]
2.
If you say that someone is doing something through or by the backdoor , you disapprove of them because they are doing it in a secret, indirect, or dishonest way.
Dentists claim the Government is privatising dentistry through the back door.
N-SING : the N , usu prep N [ disapproval ]