back-room deal

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deal
noun
uk
/diːl/us
/diːl/
an agreement or an arrangement, especially ...
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(Definition ofdealfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Or would it simply be another informalback-roomdeal?
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It has not been drafted in response to pressure from one party and it will not be triggered because of a potential resignation or aback-roomdeal.
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That is aback-roomdeal.
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If the chair had been a man, you would have a cover-up, complete with back-room deals being cut to soft-pedal on some of the boys.
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Proportional representation would deliver permanent coalitions, for ever depending on back-room deals with minority parties that would withdraw support whenever it suited them.
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Will some sort of back-room deals be done here?
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We know that back-room deals were done to stitch agreements on biodiversity, global climate changes and forestry—all riddled with get-out clauses.
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He managed to survive and keep his position by a combination of back-room deals and deceit.
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His aldermanic biography boasted that he is a master of the back-room deals, an alderman's alderman, and an avid smoker whose suits are finely tailored.
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He knows politics, however, and is a master of public relations and back-room deals.
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