back door

1. ADJ You can use backdoor to describe an action or process if you disapprove of it because you think it has been done in a secret, indirect, or dishonest way. 不正當(dāng)?shù)?span>[ADJ n] [表不滿]

Firms are using the programme as a backdoor way to replace domestic employees with cheaper labour. 公司正采取不正當(dāng)?shù)牟呗裕昧畠r勞工來取代本土員工。

Critics say this amounts to a backdoor amnesty for illegal aliens. 評論家認(rèn)為這等于是對非法移民的變相特赦。

2. N-SING If you say that someone is doing something through or by the backdoor, you disapprove of them because they are doing it in a secret, indirect, or dishonest way. 不正當(dāng)、秘密的手段['the' N, usu prep N] [表不滿]

The government must not use this initiative as a means of resolving the pension problem through the back door. 該政府絕不可使用這種方式，采取不正當(dāng)?shù)拇胧┙鉀Q養(yǎng)老金問題。