backseat
noun[C]
us/ˈbækˈsit/backseatnoun[C](SEAT BEHIND DRIVER)
theseatbehind thefrontseatof acar
backseatnoun[C](LESS IMPORTANT PLACE)
apositionof lessimportance:
Nelson will never take a backseat to anyone.
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Lessons on grammatical rules, pronunciation, and the like - never mind pragmatic or sociolinguistic conventions - take abackseatto lessons on ideology.
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In contrast, speech perception and phonology, though objects of serious scientific inquiry, have at times taken abackseatin these grander debates.
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The rising middle class with its strong consumerist tendencies has meant that political awareness and political sophistication in general has taken abackseat.
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At the institutional level, narrow organizational effectiveness takes abackseatto distributive politics.
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Meeting the target of 10 million tons of sugar in 1970 became enshrined as a matter of political prestige and regime legitimacy, and consequently, economic rationality took abackseat.
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Gender issues continue to take abackseatin this sector, and levels of female involvement in fisheries bodies and associations remain very low.
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It is not for us tobackseatdrive through this sort of technical detail.
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I mention that only because it is notoriously difficult for husbands and wives to teach each other to drive except, of course, forbackseatdriving, which is often unstoppable.
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That agency represents an enterprise of the private sector with the council taking abackseatand it is worthy of funding under the urban regeneration grant.
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All his brilliance and scientific accomplishments take abackseatto his meek personality and no one seems to take him seriously.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Standard equipment on this model included a bar cabinet with crystal decanters and goblets, intercom, an electrically operated division and abackseatsunroof.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Two of the men jumped out, grabbed her, and threw her into thebackseat.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Ironically, too, the music that for so long took abackseatto the singers, now took the lead.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The car was a two-door model and the women were sitting in thebackseat.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Additionally, pushbuttons in the rear panels allowedbackseatpassengers to unlatch the rear doors electrically.
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