back_door
has definitions from the field of architecture
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[ noun ] a secret or underhand means of access (to a place or a position)
Examples "he got his job through the back door" Used in print (Edward Austin Walton, "On Education for the Interior...)No one can deny that these `` back_door '' admissions to membership provisions have been seriously abused nor that they have not resulted in the admission of downright incompetents to membership in supposedly learned societies . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (architecture) an entrance at the rear of a building
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