transcription, транскрипция: [ bækwɔ:tə(r) ]
( backwaters)
1.
A backwater is a place that is isolated.
...a quiet rural backwater.
N-COUNT : usu with supp
2.
If you refer to a place or institution as a backwater , you think it is not developing properly because it is isolated from ideas and events in other places and institutions.
Britain could become a political backwater with no serious influence in the world...
N-COUNT : usu with supp [ disapproval ]