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

access

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[ noun ] (architecture) an entrance at the rear of a building

Synonyms

back_entrance

Related terms

exterior_door

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